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

[Petre Scheie]

The -S does work for ls, but I have some other cases where I'm just sorting some rows in 
files, not just the output from ls.  I had tried the --key but wasn't smart enough to 
figure out that the columns start at 1 rather than 0 like it used to do with the +n 
syntax.  So, thanks to everyone who pointed out how to make that syntax work.  But it 
troubles me that the syntax I've been using for 10+ years on all kinds of different 
Unixes suddenly doesn't work.  Google hasn't turned up any mention of that syntax being 
deprecated or of a bug.

Petre

Jim McQuillan wrote:
> 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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