How to sort a text file according to character code or ASCII code value?

Question

I would like to sort lines of text according to character code or ASCII code value by command line. I tried the following command line but the result is not what I expected.

# string="   8888888 >' > Transportation > Temp >temp >TEMP >    99 >    Temp >  Temporary" # LC_ALL=C echo "$string" | sort  '    8888888     99 temp  Temp     Temp TEMP   Temporary  Transportation 

To sort according to ASCII code value, the output should look like

    99     Temp    8888888   Temporary  Temp  Transportation ' TEMP temp 

Does anyone know how to do that?

Answer 1

You've frobbed the wrong program.

echo "$string" | LC_ALL=C sort 

Using $LC_COLLATE is also acceptable.