[debbugs-tracker] bug#32603: closed (sort bug?)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: sort bug? Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:34:26 -0400

My version of sort seems to have unpredictable behavior, based on the data being sorted:

$ sort <foo
t
te
tec

$ sort <foo
t.co
tec.co
te.co

$ sort <foo
t.c
te.c
tec.c

$ sort <foo
t.co
tec.co
te.co

$ sort <foo
tec.o
te.o
t.o

$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.4
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
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Using flags -d, -n, -R, -r, and -i had no effect on this behavior.

Mike Bartman
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> "sort --help" says:
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> *** WARNING ***
> The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
> Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
> native byte values.
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> and that's what you have run into.
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