Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:40:03 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: sort(1) bugs Message-ID: <199610222240.PAA22269@seagull.rtd.com>
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[stepping into asbestos underwear first...]
Greetings!
Sort chokes on 8bit chars. Well, let's just say it's
not consistent in how it performs it's tests for which character
comes first...
In particular, `sort foo` will sort the contents of foo
as if each character was unsigned. On the other hand, `sort +0f foo`
gets preoccupied dealing with upper and lower case, etc. and forgets
to treat the characters as unsigned. I started to hammer on the
code but to clean it up *right* would require more time than I can
spare at the moment [hence the asbestos underwear] -- considering
the variety of "compare" options supported.
I've checked with the FSF distribution and this behaviour
is still present in their latest release (of textutils). If
someone has a spare moment, this should be a no-brainer (and,
obviously, I must have < no-brains! :>)
Just FYI..
thanx!
--don
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