RE: Sort command in sort version 4.5.3

[Aroussi Asher]

Hi, Philip.
In the example below, I meant that I pass a file.
My version of sort is 4.5.3 and it seems that in earlier versions, the
sort command works.
Where can I find an update version of sort ?
Asher.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:54 PM
To: Aroussi Asher
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Sort command in sort version 4.5.3

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Aroussi Asher wrote:

>The sort command : 'sort -M <list_of months>' doesn't work.
>It seems that the sorting is an alphabetic one instead of
chronological.

Could you give an example of what you did, what happened, and what you
expected to happen? It appears you may be trying to pass the months as
command-line arguments, which doesn't work; they will be interpreted as
filenames to sort.

Here's what my local version of sort produces:

$ sort --version
sort (coreutils) 5.2.1
$ sort -M
APR
JAN
FEB
SEP
<Ctrl-D>
JAN
FEB
APR
SEP


Cheers,
Phil