unexpected behaviour of sort command
Issue
- as root:
[09/11 14:01:30] ~$ cat /tmp/test
X m
XEL m
XOM m
[09/11 14:01:29] ~$ sort /tmp/test
X m
XEL m
XOM m
[root@ptnydesk12 ~]# sort /tmp/test
XEL m
X m
XOM m
- If we replace m by e
[root@ptnydesk12 ~]# sort /tmp/test
X e
XEL e
XOM e
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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