Re: Sort command in sort version 4.5.3

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Aroussi Asher wrote:

>The sort command : 'sort -M <list_of months>' doesn't work.
>It seems that the sorting is an alphabetic one instead of chronological.

Could you give an example of what you did, what happened, and what you
expected to happen? It appears you may be trying to pass the months as
command-line arguments, which doesn't work; they will be interpreted as
filenames to sort.

Here's what my local version of sort produces:

$ sort --version
sort (coreutils) 5.2.1
$ sort -M
APR
JAN
FEB
SEP
<Ctrl-D>
JAN
FEB
APR
SEP


Cheers,
Phil