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Subject: sort is broken
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Not a question, just an expression of grief and deep dismay.

It is a sad day when even very fundamental tools, used in billions
of scripts, such as /usr/bin/sort turn up broken.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241679

Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I just checked and the problem does not afflict the sort
utility provided with Ubuntu Linux.