Re: sort (textutils) 2.0.21 Bug

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:56:16AM -0800, Mahesh Fernando wrote:
>   Dear friends,
>    
>   I am using Windows service for unix 3.5. When I user the sort utility to 
> sort numerically for specific field it gives me error “Input file specified 
> two times.”.  I think it is a bug.

I'm pretty sure it's not.  Maybe you missed this result when you did a
web search to find the answer yourself before sending a bug report to
the mailing list, but you might well find it helpful to read this
article, which explains that this message isn't from GNU sort at all:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01696.html

Regards,
James.