problem wth sort utility?

[Bill Davidsen]

Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> On 1 Jul 2011 at 11:50, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>
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> From:           	Roberto Ragusa<mail at robertoragusa.it>
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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 suspect that someone decided that ignore case was better, or that your LOCALE 
should be set by geographic location, or something like that. Like any default, 
some will not like it. It's not difficult to change.

> I do other filtering to extract subsets and reformat data so it works
> with a dialog radio button screen to select the info.
>>
>> --
>>     Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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