topic Re: sort command discards entries in output file in Operating System - HP-UX

sort command discards entries in output file

Vladimir Dimitrov — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:39:46 GMT

I have run on HP-UX 11.00 the command:
sort -k 1.17,1.19 -o output_file sorted_file
I found that there are missing lines in the output file.
When I run the same command on HP-UX10.20 - there is no problem with the outputfile. The problem occurs only with some files and there is not dependency with the size of the file.
Any ideas what might be the problem?

Re: sort command discards entries in output file

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:54:57 GMT

Have you installed the latest recommended patch, PHCO_17809?

Rgds, Robin

Re: sort command discards entries in output file

Clemens van Everdingen — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:58:11 GMT

Hi,

Latest sort patch is PHCO_27565 which supersedes the previous patches.

C.

Re: sort command discards entries in output file

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:07:33 GMT

Hi:

You say that the problem "only occurs with some files". What's unique about those files compared to others that work?

Regards!

...JRF...