I was expecting @'s to be sorted together, but they interleaved with the non-@ versions. Does sort have an option for ASCII sorting? I didn't see something obvious in the man page.
$ echo '@x
> @y
> @z
> x
> y
> z' | sort
x
@x
y
@y
z
@z
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Possibly duplicate of https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/429194/sort-linux-in-utf8 ? – Kusalananda Jan 29 '21 at 20:53
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This is locale-dependent. man sort includes:
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.
You can set that just for the one command, like:
... | LC_ALL=C sort ...
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2Or better use just `LC_COLLATE=C` which would work just as well. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater -- an UTF-8 `LC_CTYPE` is perfectly fine, it's `LC_COLLATE` which is unasked for trouble. – Jan 29 '21 at 23:14
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@user414777 True here. I tend to globally export LC_ALL at the top of my scripts, because I rely on awk, sort, uniq, ls, tr etc to play nicely together. – Paul_Pedant Jan 30 '21 at 10:37