Re: problem with command sort after uniq -c

[Damien ANCELIN]

You're right, my locale is set to fr_FR. I've tried with en_EN and 
en_US, and it works fine (and with -k1,1 too).
I think I understand the problem with the locale fr_FR : in french, to 
write 123456.78 in a easily readable form you write 123 456,78 (and in 
english it's 123,456.78).

Thanks Philip and Andreas for your answers (and sorry for polluting the 
bug mailing list).
Damien

Andreas Schwab a écrit :
> Damien ANCELIN <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > I met a problem with the sort command : I've used the uniq command with
> > the -c option to count some numbers, and then applying sort -n don't sort
> > lines by numeric order of the first field.
> > Here is an example (my sort version is 5.97) :
> > $ cat bug_sort | sort -n
> >     
>
> This is a useless use of cat, you can just redirect sort's standard
> input from the file.
>
>   
> >   1320 51970
> >   1692 12345
> >  22681 8060
> >  26063 8649
> >   2668 33603
> >   3487 44496
> >   4350 23246
> >  47013 8000
> >   5447 20000
> >  81724 5000
> >     
>
> I assume that you use the fr_FR locale.  In this locale a number can be
> grouped with a space, thus it is considered part of the number.  If you
> want to be sure that sort only considers the first field as sort key you
> should use -k1,1 to limit it.  The default is to always use the the
> whole line as sort key, and sort -n will take as much as possible from
> the key to match a number.
>
> Andreas.
>
>   

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