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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers linux sort command produces strange output Post 302546408 by cero on Thursday 11th of August 2011 06:41:13 AM
Old 08-11-2011
There are some environemntvariables that influence sorting, LANG and LC_ALL beeing the ones that are used most often.
Code:
$ cat mytext.txt
.a
ba
.b
bb
.c
bc
$ unset LC_ALL
$ sort mytext.txt
.a
.b
ba
bb
bc
.c
$ export LC_ALL=C
$ sort mytext.txt
.a
.b
.c
ba
bb
bc

 

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Template::Plugin::Wrap(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Template::Plugin::Wrap(3)

NAME
Template::Plugin::Wrap - Plugin interface to Text::Wrap SYNOPSIS
[% USE wrap %] # call wrap subroutine [% wrap(mytext, width, initial_tab, subsequent_tab) %] # or use wrap FILTER [% mytext FILTER wrap(width, initital_tab, subsequent_tab) %] DESCRIPTION
This plugin provides an interface to the Text::Wrap module which provides simple paragraph formatting. It defines a "wrap" subroutine which can be called, passing the input text and further optional parameters to specify the page width (default: 72), and tab characters for the first and subsequent lines (no defaults). [% USE wrap %] [% text = BLOCK %] First, attach the transmutex multiplier to the cross-wired quantum homogeniser. [% END %] [% wrap(text, 40, '* ', ' ') %] Output: * First, attach the transmutex multiplier to the cross-wired quantum homogeniser. It also registers a "wrap" filter which accepts the same three optional arguments but takes the input text directly via the filter input. Example 1: [% FILTER bullet = wrap(40, '* ', ' ') -%] First, attach the transmutex multiplier to the cross-wired quantum homogeniser. [%- END %] Output: * First, attach the transmutex multiplier to the cross-wired quantum homogeniser. Example 2: [% FILTER bullet -%] Then remodulate the shield to match the harmonic frequency, taking care to correct the phase difference. [% END %] Output: * Then remodulate the shield to match the harmonic frequency, taking care to correct the phase difference. AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> The Text::Wrap module was written by David Muir Sharnoff with help from Tim Pierce and many others. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin, Text::Wrap perl v5.16.3 2011-12-20 Template::Plugin::Wrap(3)
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