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I have learned that naive use of "sort" in scripts can sometimes cause
problems. Different systems have different locale settings and these
locale settings determine the behavior of the sort utility.
I guess the best plan is to always set certain locale strings within the
script so that the behavior of "sort" will be consistent and predictable.
Apparently, these variables include:
LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES, NLSPATH, LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC
According to GNU sort:
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort
order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.
So maybe that's all I need to set and the rest is taken care of. Any
comments are welcome.
Mike
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