I ain’t got no software

Posted on Sunday, 2008 January 20 by Anton

… that I can depend on.

I updated my MacOS to 10.5 “Leopard”, and now the shell command sort no longer recognizes the ‘+’ option (to skip a specified number of words before beginning the key). Argh.

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2 Responses to I ain’t got no software

  1. Anton says:
    Monday, 2008 January 28 at 09:35

    A newer version of POSIX forbids the old behavior; in place of sort +2 I can use sort -k3.

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  2. b_jonas says:
    Wednesday, 2008 January 30 at 05:43

    I also had to change some scripts for new versions of gnu coreutils had depreciated the old syntax ‘tail +2’, in favor of ‘tail -n2’.

    I must say, I don’t like the plus syntax anyway.

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