problem wth sort utility?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 1 Jul 2011 at 11:50, Roberto Ragusa wrote:

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> On 07/01/2011 09:00 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > I'm getting results that I don't expect and different from busybox 
> > sort?
> 
> The busybox sorting is more simple (and more correct, to your eyes).
> 
> Try with:
> 
> LC_COLLATE=C sort a >b
> 
> or
> 
> LC_ALL=C sort a >b
> 
> to disable the linguistic "smart" sorting which tries to address
> capital letters, spaces, accented letters and so on in ways which
> are sometimes welcome and other times surprising.
> 
> If you want the raw sorting (as by C language's strcmp()) you have
> to use the LC_COLLATE=C or LC_ALL=C env var.

Thanks. I looked thru the man sort, but didn't find a switch that I 
would expect to change this.

The command I use that no works is
fsarchiver probe 2>&1 | LC_ALL=C sort 

What makes this not the default? 

I do other filtering to extract subsets and reformat data so it works 
with a dialog radio button screen to select the info.





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