Bug 8813 – sort output is incorrect

Bug 8813 - sort output is incorrect

Summary:	sort output is incorrect

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	textutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-01-24 18:20 EST by John Benninghoff
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-01-24 18:23:56 EST
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Description John Benninghoff 2000-01-24 18:20:56 EST

Here is the test case in a unix shell transcript:

johnb@ilinux zsh: cat test.fqn
ads.gamespy.com
ads.enliven.com
adserver.akqa.net
ads.dogpile.com
ads.fool.com
johnb@ilinux zsh: sort test.fqn
ads.dogpile.com
ads.enliven.com
adserver.akqa.net
ads.fool.com
ads.gamespy.com
johnb@ilinux zsh: sort --version
sort (GNU textutils) 2.0
Written by Mike Haertel.

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
johnb@ilinux zsh: type sort
sort is /bin/sort


It appears as though the -d option is enabled by default.  Just my
speculation though.  My results on Solaris 2.6 appeared correct.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-01-24 18:23:59 EST

This was related to the locale stuff, which turned out to be more
confusing than senseful.
It's now (Rawhide/6.2b*) disabled by default.

Comment 2 John Benninghoff 2000-01-24 18:50:59 EST

So how do I disable -d in the interim?

Comment 3 sidlon 2000-03-11 14:12:59 EST

For now, set the environmental variable LC_ALL to POSIX, and sort will work properly.

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