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sort and ed/red


From: graham lawrence
Subject: sort and ed/red
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:08:26 -0800 (PST)

I have the Unix utilities for windows that I downloaded on 9/26/09. 2 problems.
 
1) ed actually seems to be red.  They are the same size on disk, and work 
exactly the same, ie ed also only processes files in its own directory, thus
C:\Program Files\gnuwin32>ed update-links.txt
27855
q
C:\Program Files\gnuwin32>ed C:\SortTest.txt
C:\SortTest.txt: No such file or directory
 
2) I need to sort a word list in strict binary sequence, but what it does is 
this
C:\Program Files\gnuwin32>set LC_ALL=POSIX
C:\Program Files\gnuwin32>sort C:\SortTest.txt
a
A
a's
A's
A'S
aa
Aa
AA
aaa
Aaa
AAA
Aab
AAB
Aabenraa
AABENRAA
C:\Program Files\gnuwin32>
 
I've also tried set LC_COLLATE=POSIX, set LC_ALL=ASCII and set 
LC_COLLATE=ASCII.  None of them make any difference to the output.  LANG and 
LANGUAGE are both set to EN.
 
Ideally I would like it to sort each word as a single right-justified binary 
number, so that the sort output would be by word-length and by the ascii 
collating sequence within word-length.  If that is not possible, just in ascii 
sequence is ok, so that I would see this kind of output
 
A
.
.
ZZZ
.
.
a
 
etc
 
Thank you for your help.
 
Graham Lawrence





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