Question

Here is a screenshot of an issue I’m having with sort:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/QafQy.png

The objective I want out of this, is to put all equal strings on consecutive lines. It works for 99% of the list I’m sorting, but there’s a few hitches such as those in the screen shot.

So all the yahoo.coms should be next to each other, and then all the Yahoo.coms then the YAHOO.coms yahoo.cmos yhoo.c etc. (The typos even getting their own group of lines)

Not entirely sure how to handle this with sort, but I’m certainly trying.

I print all the domains unsorted to a file and then sort it with just vanilla sort filename

Would love some advice/input.

Answer 1

You probably need to override the locale; most Linux systems default to a UTF8 locale which specifies both case independent sorting and ignoring punctuation.

LANG=C sort filename