Re: bug in the "sort" command

Paulo C?sar Zegarra Lazarte <[email protected]> [2003-01-03 15:06:32 -0600]:
> 
> My name is Paulo Zegarra and I had troubles using the sort command when i try to use it with the next syntasys 
> 
> sort -ut/ +2n +1n +0n

Thank you for your report.  But you did not include very much
information.  I do not think we can isolate your problem based upon
what you provided.

> when i use this syntaxis to sort files who content dates separated by  /   in the format dd/mm/YYYY I can get the result but  it doesn't work if i use it in the crontab (background) and if I have several dates in the same file the sort command blank my result.

Because you say it works differently when run from cron versus when
run from you on the command line I suspect environment variables are
different.  Check 'LANG' and make sure it is set the same in both.

  echo $LANG

If you can provide a small test case that completely recreates the
problem it would help.  Here is an example.

  cat > testfile <<EOF
one
two
three
EOF

  export LC_ALL=POSIX
  sort < testfile
  one
  three
  two

Also, we will need to know the version of sort.

  sort --vesion
  locale
  uname -a

Bob