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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Sorting scientific numbers with sort Post 302944706 by Corona688 on Thursday 21st of May 2015 11:27:02 AM
Old 05-21-2015
I doubt that a gremlin has fiddled one random bit inside the executable to break general sorting. If the option isn't found that's causing it to misbehave, it'd still misbehave when reinstalled.

This is a GNU utility, meaning it tries to abide by LOCALE (when most equivalents don't) which sometimes means bugs unintended consequences related to that. What's your locale? Try LOCALE=C sort ... to prevent it from doing any unintended translation, etc.
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locale

LOCALE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 LOCALE(1)

NAME

       locale - Get locale-specific information.

SYNOPSIS

       locale [ -a | -m]

       locale [ -ck ] name...

DESCRIPTION

       The locale program writes information about the current locale environment, or all locales, to standard output.

       When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current locale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_* environment
       variables.

       -a, --all-locales

	       Write names of available locales.

       -m, --charmaps

	       Write names of available charmaps.

       Output Format:

       -c, --category-name

	       Write names of selected categories.

       -k, --keyword-name

	       Write names and values of selected keywords.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       LC_CTYPE

	       Character classification and case conversion.

       LC_COLLATE

	       Collation order.

       LC_TIME

	       Date and time formats.

       LC_NUMERIC

	       Non-monetary numeric formats.

       LC_MONETARY

	       Monetary formats.

       LC_MESSAGES

	       Formats of informative and diagnostic messages and	  interactive responses.

AUTHOR

       locale is written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.

       This manpage is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    March 2001								 LOCALE(1)
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