Bug 12269 - sort doesn't sort the way it used too
Summary: sort doesn't sort the way it used too
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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: 12492 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-06-14 15:52 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2000-07-06 21:00:23 UTC
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Description Hans de Goede 2000-06-14 15:52:12 UTC 
Try:
ls --color=no -a|less

And then
ls --color=no -a|sort|less

This used to be the same, but now sort ignores . and Capitals and just
sorts on the first lowercased alpha char it finds, it feels like an MS
operating system, YUGH.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-06-17 15:28:36 UTC 
This is because of locale changes in glibc - reassigning.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-06 21:00:21 UTC 
*** Bug 12492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alan Cox 2000-08-18 17:33:08 UTC 
export LC_COLLATE=c I believe

Having beaten this about its been agreed that the new behaviour is standard and
correct.
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