"Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov" <D.Yu.Bolkhovityanov at inp.nsk.su> wrote: > .bashrc > bear > .cshrc > > while under glibc 2.1 it gave > > .bashrc > .cshrc > bear libc6 2.2.3 on Debian sorts the lines like your 2.1 This is with LANG=C. Maybe you have some locale settings active that influence the result? Ciao, Martin