[Cialug] Dude, Where's My Sort?

Jonathan A. Kollasch jakllsch at kollasch.net
Thu Mar 26 16:51:57 UTC 2020


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:04:57PM -0400, Todd Walton 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
>>> 
> It didn't sort.

What's the output of `locale` for this?

	Jonathan


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