sort (textutils) 2.0.21 Bug

[Mahesh Fernando]

Dear friends,

I am using Windows service for unix 3.5. When I user the sort utility to sort numerically for specific field it gives me error “Input file specified two times.”. I think it is a bug.
My command format as follows,

sort +23n file_name
sort utility version 2.0.21

Could you please send me a solution for this bug?

Thanks
Mahesh Fernando.




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[Bob Proulx]

Post by Mahesh Fernando
I am using Windows service for unix 3.5. When I user the sort utility to sort numerically for specific field it gives me error “Input file specified two times.”. I think it is a bug.
My command format as follows,
sort +23n file_name
sort utility version 2.0.21
Could you please send me a solution for this bug?

Two things. For one thing version 2.0.21 is very old. Please
upgrade. Secondly since you are using Windows we can't really help
too much here. You would have much better luck with your question on
the cygwin mailing lists.

http://www.cygwin.com

Mostly likely if you upgraded to the current coreutils available there
your problem would go away.

Bob

[James Youngman]

Post by Mahesh Fernando
Dear friends,
I am using Windows service for unix 3.5. When I user the sort utility to sort numerically for specific field it gives me error “Input file specified two times.”. I think it is a bug.

I'm pretty sure it's not. Maybe you missed this result when you did a
web search to find the answer yourself before sending a bug report to
the mailing list, but you might well find it helpful to read this
article, which explains that this message isn't from GNU sort at all:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01696.html

Regards,
James.