Re: strange behavior with os.system

2009-06-17 Thread kmw
That's it. I am calling my own program and not coreutils' sort, what explains the unrequested output. Many thanks. Cheers, Kay On 16 Jun., 22:16, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > kmw (k) wrote: > >k> Hi, > >k> I wanted to write a simple script (in 5 minutes or so) which replaces > >k> the option

Re: strange behavior with os.system

2009-06-16 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> kmw (k) wrote: >k> Hi, >k> I wanted to write a simple script (in 5 minutes or so) which replaces >k> the option '+1' given to the command 'sort' by '-k 2' and than runs >k> 'sort' with the modified argument list. After two hours I am giving up >k> and ask you for help. This is what I tried

Re: strange behavior with os.system

2009-06-16 Thread MRAB
kmw wrote: Hi, I wanted to write a simple script (in 5 minutes or so) which replaces the option '+1' given to the command 'sort' by '-k 2' and than runs 'sort' with the modified argument list. After two hours I am giving up and ask you for help. This is what I tried (please excuse the verbose co