On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:45 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
>
> I'm no sort expert but it looks like the sort program has a bug:
>
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=5044446
>
> sort produces an unclear error message when input lines are too long.
>
> input lines longer than 8k can cause sort to stop and produce a message
> suggesting -S option could help when it can't.
You should be able to confirm that this is your problem with:
$ find . | awk 'length($0) > 8192 {print length($0), $0}'
And could likely work around it by using perl to do the sorting:
$ find . | perl -e 'print sort <>'
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Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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