Jiri Slaby composed on 2024-07-11 06:44 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote:
TW is doing like 15.6, both since recent months. How can I get results like 15.5 again? Does this look like bug report in need?
no, sort sorts correctly from the beginning of the line (those "i", "i+", etc.). Use: sort -f '|' -k 2 instead.
Did you miss the fact that i-space-space is sorting before space-l-space in 15.6? Why is that happening? I'm not looking to sort initially by package name. I'm trying to do as shown in 15.5, which is like 15.4, 15.3, 15.2, 15.1, 15.0, 42.3, 42.2, 42.1, 13.2, 13.1, 12.3 ... did, so that all the uninstalled/unlocked packages scroll off the top of the screen, leaving me all the lockeds, installeds, & availables to land in the tail, and hopefully, remain in window or screen, without involving less, just like the 15.5 section of my OP. I tried saving output directly to disk to see if what looks like a space is in fact 0x20, and it is. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata