FW: sort bug

[Robert M. Soule]

Hi.

I found the following bug using GNU textutils 2.0, which was installed as
part of the CygWin install (I'm not sure which version of CygWin - sorry!)

Regards,
Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Meyering [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:20 AM
To: Robert M. Soule
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: sort bug


"Robert M. Soule" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm using the sort utility in CygWin on Win2000 as follows:
>
> sort -k 4 test.txt
>
> Instead of sorting on the 4th field, it says, "Input file specified two
> times."
>
> Is there a fix for this?  Am I using this incorrectly?  Thanks!

Your use is fine.
What version of sort are you using?
Please report this to the cygwin folks:

Cygwin Home Page:
  http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines:
  http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/bugs.html