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Re: incorrectly sorted file with snow leopard sort


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: incorrectly sorted file with snow leopard sort
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:03:51 -0700
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According to Eric Blake on 11/3/2009 6:59 PM:
> According to Kamil Dudka on 11/3/2009 1:16 PM:
>> On Tuesday 03 of November 2009 19:23:18 emmanuel poirier wrote:
>>> Attachment: list-of-groups-greetings.txt
>> $ cat list-of-groups-greetings.txt | tr -d "\r" | sort
> 
> Useless use of cat.
> 
> tr -d "\r" < list-of-groups-greetings.txt | sort

Also, "\r" is not portable - some shells treat it as "r", others as "\\r".
 For portability, use:

tr -d '\r' < list-of-groups-greetings.txt | sort

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