Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:47:33 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. Message-ID: <200111291647.fATGlXK61006@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:27:52 %2B0300." <20011129162751.GD8233@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:19:01 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:13:23PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > > If you want sufficient test for single-byte sorting & collation, try to
> > > use ru_RU.KOI8-R encoding.
> >
> > I am not sure most of us could do that well. Can you test BSD sort and
> > report back?
>
> I don't have it in hand.
>
> The test is simple:
>
> 1) Create the file with single character per line from \000 to \377
>
> 2) Sort it using
> LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R gnu_sort < file
> (I mean _patched_ GNU sort we currently have in sources, not original
> one which not support collation)
>
> 3) Sort it using
> LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R bsd_sort < file
>
> 4) Compare results.
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ruby
File.open('f', 'w') {|f|
1.upto(255) {|n|
f.puts(n.chr) if n.chr !~ /^[[:cntrl:]]/
}
}
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ls -l f
-rw-r--r-- 1 green green 446 29 ΞΟΡ 11:46 f
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ md5 f
MD5 (f) = 60369ee3857999b452c560c7a8256734
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ sort f | md5
3c31168a9159c2df8d8ce56370579c58
{"/home/green/netbsd-sort/basesrc/usr.bin/sort"}$ ./sort f | md5
60369ee3857999b452c560c7a8256734
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