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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc From: Bill Campbell <bill@celestial.com> Subject: Re: beautiful moon Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 03:58:58 GMT Message-ID: <20001003205858.B22657@kstarr.celestial.com> References: <20001003232310.K3723@jpradley.jpr.com> Mail-Followup-To: "ScoMisc [c.u.s.m]" <scomsc@xenitec.on.ca> You can also get a case insensitive sort by using standard sort options like ``sort -fd''. The -f says lower case characters into the equivalent upper case, and the -d says Sort in `phone directory' order: ignore all characters except letters, digits, and blanks. Using any LANG setting other ``C'' can cause some very strange results when one is doing system administration things where I expect a straight ascii sort.
The first time I ran into this was when I was building gawk on a UnixWare system when it failed the tests because sorts weren't producing the expected results. On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:23:10AM +0000, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote: >In honor of the beautiful first quarter moon this evening, here's a >free tip o' my hat: > >Instead of this listing when you list a directory: > > AWF.IP > TFX.IP > appl > save.tar > ud > >you can have a case-insensitive sort, instead of strict ASCII order: > > appl > AWF.IP > save.tar > TFX.IP > ud > >The first is produced under the default language setting of C_C.C, >while the latter comes from setting LANG=english_us.8859 (or more >conservatively, LC_COLLATE=english_us.8859) in your environment. > >-- >JP -- Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: https://www.celestial.com/ It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw
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