[K12OSN] OT: bug in /sbin/sort?

[Jim McQuillan]

Petre,

Dunno about bugs with sort, but why not just use the '-S' option to ls ?

   ls -l -S

or

  ls -lS


Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org


Petre Scheie wrote:
> The sort utility (/bin/sort) on my K12LTSP 5 box (FC5) isn't working 
> properly.  When I type
>
> ls -l |sort +4n
>
> I get
>
> sort: open failed: +4n: No such file or directory
>
> rather than a list of files sorted by their size.  It works correctly 
> on my 4.2 (FC4) box, and various other linux & unix boxen, just not on 
> this FC5 box.  I don't have any other FC5 boxes to test.  Anyone else 
> seeing this?
>
> Petre
>
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