Re: 'sort' command-alternative?
Re: 'sort' command-alternative?
- Subject: Re: 'sort' command-alternative?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:47:36 +1000
On 7/10/02 6:07 AM +1000, John W Baxter, email@hidden, wrote:
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At 21:20 +1000 10/6/2002, Shane Stanley wrote:
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> At it's simplest: Lots of apps return results as type Unicode text. What
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> happens if I throw that at these Unix utilities, or do I have to coerce them
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> to something else first? IOW, what do I have to do before I can use them.
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> Ditto for plain text that really isn't. And will the sorting order for
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> things like accented caps match that used by the Mac's old sort routines?
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Sort believes its input is a stream of bytes, separated by Unix newline
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characters into lines, and behaves accordingly. Look at the stream of
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bytes, and you'll be able to work out what sort will do.
IOW it's neat and fast, but largely useless for Mac users, especially if
they are likely to be using things like accented characters. Is that a fair
summary?
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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