From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 14:31:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962E037B401; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551C743E7B; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E94F2A894; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Tim Robbins , Steve Kargl , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? In-Reply-To: <20020924204809.GA60957@nagual.pp.ru> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:31:27 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020924213127.3E94F2A894@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > > party scripts that use +n syntax. > > > > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( > > It will be possible to have both variants, but +N is valid filename per > POSIX, so obsoleted syntax can't be supported. Yes it can. If anybody wants portability beyond FreeBSD, they'll be using sort ./+N for their filenames. How many successful widely distributed OS's are there that does not allow sort +N as a numeric argument by default? (I'm sure somebody can dig up an obscure linux distribution or some microcontroller OS or something, I'm talking about something on the scale of redhat or solaris or something) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message