From da10808f2a7ea7b66f383afddb88d3d4b441f3b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Levine <_@thomaslevine.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:03:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sorting --- SORTING | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/SORTING b/SORTING index 9020236..6f40878 100644 --- a/SORTING +++ b/SORTING @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ On one computer, running FreeBSD, the order is apparently ASCIIbetical. @ b ~ c -On another computer, running NixOS, the following commands print results +On two GNU systems, running NixOS and Debian, respectively, output is in dictionary order. I'm not exactly sure what dictionary order is, but it is something like sorting on the alphabetical characters before sorting on the rest of the line. @@ -38,5 +38,3 @@ commands. With BSD sort, the first of these commands print ASCIIbetical order and the second prints dictionary order. With GNU sort, both print dictionary order. - -How annoying.