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Re: sort -R not working
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: sort -R not working |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:56:16 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote:
> Hi
>
> sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason
> for this?
I vaguely remember there being a bug where sort -R was
not working on some locales, but the git history is not
helping me out. Can you retry with `LANG=C sort -R`.
I can't reproduce though:
$ sudo chroot /f8
# rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-6.9-12.fc8
# echo $LANG
en_IE.UTF-8
# seq 5 | sort -R
3
2
1
4
5
cheers,
Pádraig.