Re: sort and LC_COLLATE: suggestions for improvement (with patch)

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jean-Pierre Vial wrote:

> When one wants to sort a file in which letters are just codes, not 
> meaningfull words, the sort order obtained through LC_COLLATE is very 
> often inadequate. The help suggest to set LC_ALL="C", but this is 
> often inadequate as well in complcated shell scripts.

Inadequate in what sense? The script could be phrased something like 
this:

LC_COLLATE=C sort -k2,2 ...

which avoids having to set then reset any LC_ environment variables.


Cheers,
Phil