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Re: sort seems deficient


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: sort seems deficient
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:36:46 +0200

address@hidden wrote:
> ??? I just used sort on a redhat Enterprise 5 server.
>
> ??? Sort seems to ignore leading "." characters.? This is incorrect.

How sort works depends on your locale.
This link explains and tells you how to change that behavior:

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021




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