Re: the bugs of sort ?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Guan, Hao SLC SBS PEK on 10/6/2006 1:30 AM:
> By the way, the version infomation of the "sort" is as below:
>  
> address@hidden Access]$ sort --version
> sort (coreutils) 4.5.3

You could use an upgrade - the latest stable version is 6.3, and it is
several years newer.

>  
> My expectation of the result should be as below because letter "a" is
> bigger than the space character in ASCII value :

Ah, but does your locale sort by ASCII?  Try again with LC_ALL=C in the
environment, and read
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
It is not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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