On 03/18/11 08:24 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> In other words, if GNU sort has all the functionality and more,
> then why doesn't it get promoted to the one true version of "sort"?
Because no one has had time to finish all the analysis and standards
testing yet to determine that for all the GNU commands. That was
always described as part of the long term plan to resolve the mess
made by the short term implementation of putting /usr/gnu/bin ahead
of /usr/bin in the OpenSolaris default $PATH.
For the specific case of sort, the "-y" & "-z" flags, which Solaris sort
document as obsolete, are the only incompatibilities I know off hand for
GNU sort.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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