Jim, Thx for bringing me into the new millenium. I kinda liked the 19xx's though ... those years were good to me.
BTW, in my example I meant to state: % sort +5 myfile rather than % sort -5 myfile. I am reading and learning about the current options to the sort command by surfing the WWW. The command is pretty versatile. I didn't realize. May the 20xx's aren't so bad after all. Which website does the best job of presenting usage examples for the sort command, for a non-CS major? Have a great week! MikeA -----Original Message----- From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/18/2008 9:35 AM To: Michael Alston Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Did the options for the Unix sort command change? "Michael Alston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: > > Did the options for the Unix sort command change? Yes. Some time ago. > Why does: > > % sort -5 myfile > > no longer sort myfile by keying off of column 5? That precise syntax never worked. However, syntax like this used to be the norm: sort +3 -5 myfile Now, while that is still supported, you usually have to go through hoops (set the _POSIX2_VERSION envvar to some small number) to make it work. For details, read "info coreutils standards" and then the section on sort. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
