If you have two simple sorted files, and do a merge, i.e., a.txt with b.txt, using sort -m -u , you will get a merged file correctly. If one of the files is completely empty, you used to get the other file as the merge file. Now, you get an error --- segmentation fault. I had to put a return in my empty file to make it work. Why do the merge in the first place? In the process I developed, I create the empty file as a starting point for future merges. If the file is missing, it gets created automatically and fills after the first merge. There are other ways to do this, but it worked up to now.
my specific example is: gunzip < a.gz | sort -m -u b - > c.txt where a is a zipped text file and b is either an empty file, or, has a return, or, has lines of text with returns. c.txt is the sorted output of the merge. It worked with the version of bash that came with RH7.0 but does not work with the version that came with RH7.2. Yours truly, Brooke __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
