Thread: 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


-dreamer

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