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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-05-10 09:42:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-05-10 09:42:14 +0000 |
| commit | 06dacc0d6d1561500bd4d883db4b7945553bd603 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d535ffa82d347726d3de70b1583ec53217c5477 /doc | |
| parent | a228d68c3352386d4670e73201e2a2fb86f277cd (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-06dacc0d6d1561500bd4d883db4b7945553bd603.tar.xz | |
(More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
`ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ad843d8f7..18479cac7 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -5388,6 +5388,12 @@ fractional one: abc-1.01a.tgz abc-1.012b.tgz @end example +This functionality is implemented using the @code{strverscmp} function. +@xref{String/Array Comparison, , , libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}. +One result of that implementation decision is that @code{ls -v} does not +use the locale category, @env{LC_COLLATE}. As a result, non-numeric prefixes +are sorted as if @env{LC_COLLATE} were set to @code{C}. + @node General output formatting @subsection General output formatting |