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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> I found your solution by reading the manual. The syntax you use is obsolete: |
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> "On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax |
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> `+POS1 [-POS2]' for specifying sort keys. This obsolete behavior can |
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> be enabled or disabled with the `_POSIX2_VERSION' environment variable |
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> (*note Standards conformance::); it can also be enabled when |
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> `POSIXLY_CORRECT' is not set by using the obsolete syntax with `-POS2' |
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> present." |
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> After setting that environment variable, it works as you expected. |
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> _POSIX2_VERSION=1 sort -n +0.11 testing |
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Thank you for sharing this version of the solution. Will remember that |
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this is an obsolete method. |
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Once again thank you all for sharing and helping me out. |
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P.V.Anthony |
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