[19553] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.0.14: sort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Tue Aug 7 10:24:29 2001
Message-Id: <200108071423.KAA03067@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:23:55 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 9.0.14 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
There's an OLC stock answer that lists the following:
du -sk * .??* | sort +6 -1 -nr | more
to list files/directories by size. This used to work. Okay,
I'm not sure *why* it used to work (Brett wrote it), as the man page
seems to suggest that this sorts from column 6 on to column 1, but I'm
a little fuzzy on the sort man page. Now, it hangs indefinitely, and
this appears to be the case for all sorts in which the - number is
smaller than the + number.
What's wrong:
Well, regardless of whether the syntax is correct, hanging
is sort of unfortunate.
What should have happened:
It should sorted the files large to small.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
It still works on linux (both old and new). on an SGI, it
doesn't hang, but it doesn't sort in the order it used to
(large to small).
Using sort -nr without the numeric arguments appears to give
the desired effect, so that's a workaround and a fix for the
OLC stock answer, but I still don't like hanging forever. :)
