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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:41 PM, P.V.Anthony <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am having a problem doing a simple sort. The sorting just does not |
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> work with the command sort. |
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> In a directory are the following files, |
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> access.log.0 |
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> access.log.1 |
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> access.log.10 |
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> access.log.11 |
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> access.log.12 |
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> access.log.13 |
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> access.log.14 |
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> access.log.15 |
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> access.log.16 |
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> access.log.17 |
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> access.log.18 |
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> access.log.19 |
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> access.log.2 |
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> access.log.20 |
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> access.log.21 |
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> access.log.3 |
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> access.log.4 |
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> access.log.5 |
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> access.log.6 |
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> access.log.7 |
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> access.log.8 |
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> access.log.9 |
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> Did the following command, |
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> |
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> #ls access.log.* | sort -n +0.11 |
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> Got the following error, |
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> #sort: open failed: +0.11: No such file or directory |
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> What am I doing wrong? |
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> Tried puting the list of files into a file called "testing" then did the |
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> following command, |
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> #sort -n +0.11 testing |
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> Still same error, |
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> #sort: open failed: +0.11: No such file or directory |
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> How to correct this? |
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Hi, |
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I just tried it on Windows (cygwin... I'm at work) and it worked as |
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expected. Maybe the + character needs to be escaped in your shell? |
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Paul |
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