ubuntu 9.10 - bash sort ignoring non-alpha characters -



ubuntu 9.10 - bash sort ignoring non-alpha characters -

i'm trying extract list of unique tags tagged-text file. tags delimited angle brackets, , each tag name starts colon: <:ttx>, <ol_2> , on.

i started adding line-break after each >, tried sort. results baffled me, until realized sort ignoring first 2 characters.

is there switch need add, or bbuntu-flavoured bash going sort -d without option?

use lang=c disable locale => sort works better:

grep -o '<:[a-za-z0-9]>' your-tagged-text-file | lang=c sort

bash ubuntu-9.10

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