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