[Bug 1152622] Re: Sort fails to sort

[C de-Avillez]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better.

This does not seem to be a bug but rather one or more wrong
expectations:

1. the default field separator for 'sort' is a space; there are no spaces in the data you provided
2. you are running under the en_US.UTF-8 locale; 'sort' output may be affected by the locale in use (see [1])
3. you did not specify a filed to sort on, so 'sort' will use the whole line as a key.
4. you did not specify the field separator.

For your 'fails' dataset, I run sort as:

sort  -k1,1 -t: fails
foo:2
foo1:3

Which seems to be what you expected. Please see 'info sort' for the full
documentation of the utility.

I am closing this bug as INVALID (not a bug). Please re-open if you do
not agree with it.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-
does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Sort fails to sort

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  To reproduce the problem, run the following:

  cat << %%% > works
  foo1:2
  foo:1
  %%%
  echo "sort works" | sh -sx

  cat << %%% > fails
  foo1:3
  foo:2
  %%%
  echo "sort fails" | sh -sx

  The output will be:

  + sort works
  foo:1
  foo1:2
  + sort fails
  foo1:3
  foo:2

  I was expecting the output of "sort fails" to be:

  foo:2
  foo1:3

  % lsb_release -rd

  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: coreutils 8.13-3ubuntu3.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.61-generic 3.2.37
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Mar  8 07:59:21 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-02 (309 days ago)

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