Re: sort command does not deal with blanks correctly

[Matthew Woehlke]

address@hidden wrote:
> in Solaris, for example (and in perl, etc.)
> ae
> ac
> a l
> az
> sorts to
> a l
> ac
> ae
> az
>
> which is correct, since the space character is lexigraphically less than any
> alphanumeric character
>
> but gnu sort (linux) seems to ignore the blanks entirely, resulting in
> ac
> ae
> a l
> az
>
> getting a different result is a real pain!
> Is there any option that makes 'sort' behave as the man page claims it does?

From the man page:

> *** 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.

...did you try this?

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Matthew
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