sort installed but not found

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Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ["so<TAB>" finds sort, "rpm -qa | sort" doesn't]
> 
> Perhaps the "sort" is mistyped somehow (i.e., you snuck in a correction
> into the command name)? Perhaps the sort it is finding is not sort(1),
> i.e., /bin/sort (which(1) should answer that, try calling that one
> explicitly). Perhaps the PATH is borked? It could be a error message from
> the sort program being called (yes, I've seen my share of less than useful
> messages in my time). What shell are you using?
> 
> The package containing sort could be broken, try "rpm -Vf /bin/sort".
> 
> Try something like "sort /etc/passwd" or "/bin/sort /etc/passwd", if it
> fails, try
> 
>   strace sort /etc/passwd 2> /tmp/SOMEPLACESAFE
> 
> or the same with /bin, and look at what it tries to do and where it fails.
> That should give some clue on what is going on here.

I was wondering if possibly the <tab> expansion of programs uses the
update database.  if so it will find it until you run updatedb.

Do an 'ls /bin/so*' to find out if it is still there.

hth

Scott
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