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Thread: Duplicating default behavior of unix sort

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    Default Duplicating default behavior of unix sort

    Unix sort uses en_US.UTF-8 by default.

    I'm trying to find a Locale and Collator that will duplicate the way that unix(linux) sort works by default.

    Does anyone have any ideas?

    Thanks much.

    sl73caeapp03:~ $ cat f
    a
    A
    b
    B
    sl73caeapp03:~ $ sort f # how to duplicate this behavior?
    a
    A
    b
    B
    sl73caeapp03:~ $ LC_ALL=c sort f # not this behavior
    A
    B
    a
    b


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    Default Re: Duplicating default behavior of unix sort

    On my Centos 6.4 Linux system (installed with default US settings) the collator is POSIX.

    So...

    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ locale
    LANG=en_US.utf8
    LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
    LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
    LC_COLLATE=POSIX
    LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
    LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
    LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
    LC_ALL=
    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ echo $LC_COLLATE
    POSIX
    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ cat f
    b
    a
    B
    A
    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ sort f
    A
    B
    a
    b
    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ export LC_COLLATE=en_US
    [Zaphod@star5x2 ~]$ sort f
    a
    A
    b
    B


    Cheers!

    Z

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