Subject: Re: [alpine-user] Bug in busybox's sort -s ?
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From: Achim <achim@owasp.org>
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:26:34 +0200
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Please check you environment: remove all LC_* variables and set LANG=C
(or unset LANG), then try again.

Just my 2 pence
Achim

On 21.08.2017 04:11, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I encountered strange result with "sort -s" on Alpine 3.6.2.
> Wanted to check with you before filing a bug:
> 
> The following two commands (with and without -s) give different
> result on alpine linux 3.6.2/amd64,
> withg busybox v1.26.2 (2017-08-03 13:08:12 GMT):
> 
>   $ printf "a X 1\nA X 2\nA x 5\n" | sort -k1,1
>   A X 2
>   A x 5
>   a X 1
> 
>   $ printf "a X 1\nA X 2\nA x 5\n" | sort -k1,1 -s
>   A x 5
>   A X 2
>   a X 1
> 
> They give the same result (as they should) with
> coreutil's, FreeBSD and OpenBSD's sort.
> 
> Strangely, I also get the correct same result
> when building busybox on a Debian machine,
> tried both the latest git and tag 1_26_2.
> 
> It's only on an Alpine VM that I get this discrepancy.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
>  - assaf




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