Why does putting "depot" in the input file, corrupt the sort function? How can I get sort to operate properly?
$ cat good bin/... //b/bin/... logs/... //logs/... ... //b/... $ sort good ... //b/... bin/... //b/bin/... logs/... //logs/... $ cat bad bin/... //depot/b/bin/... logs/... //depot/logs/... ... //depot/b/... $ sort bad bin/... //depot/b/bin/... ... //depot/b/... logs/... //depot/logs/... $ This occurs on RedHat: $ uname -a Linux hidden-name 2.6.32-71.15.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 23 10:39:44 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ which sort /bin/sort $ file /bin/sort /bin/sort: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped $ And on Linux Mint (which is on top of Ubuntu): $ uname -a Linux hidden_name 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ which sort /usr/bin/sort $ Thanks for your help! Ken
