[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

[David Champion]

You've pasted some odd characters there for your numbers...

Retyped and it works.

$ printf '%s\n' 2 1 | sort
1
2

-dc


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:06 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check it out:
>
> [prompt]$ sort --version
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.22
> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
> >.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
>
> [prompt]$ printf '%s\n' ２ １ | sort
> ２
> １
>
> It didn't sort.
>
> --
> Todd
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