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Re: [coreutils-6.9] ls and sort bug: ls and sort fails to sort alphabeti
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: [coreutils-6.9] ls and sort bug: ls and sort fails to sort alphabetically with and without options |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:40:20 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Wilber Washbucket wrote:
> I noticed that ls was failing to sort alphabetically so I grabbed
> the latest version of coreutils and compiled it to test it, which
> failed as well:
Thank you for your report. However your report matches a very common
signature that is not a bug in coreutils but is instead simply a
misunderstanding of locale.
Check your locale setting. The 'locale' command may be used
conveniently to print out the current settings.
locale
You are probably using a locale in which the character collating
sequence is a "dictionary" sort ordering. (For example all of the
en_* (english) locales sort by ignoring punctuation and folding case.)
Try setting the high priority locale override to select the POSIX C
locale for everything.
export LC_ALL=C
See this reference for more details.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/
Look for "Sort does not sort in normal order!"
Bob