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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't understand the script Post 302380520 by durden_tyler on Tuesday 15th of December 2009 11:32:07 AM
Old 12-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by shahdharmit
...
2nd cmd give the following error-
Code:
sort: open failed: +1n: No such file or directory

Seems like the syntax is incorrect in this command:

Code:
$
$ cut -d: -f1,3,7 /etc/passwd |sort -t: +1n
sort: open failed: +1n: No such file or directory
$

As can be seen by the following:

Code:
$
$ sort -t: +1n /etc/passwd
sort: open failed: +1n: No such file or directory
$

If you want to sort the output (numerically) by the 2nd field, which is the 3rd field in the original /etc/passwd file, then -

Code:
cut -d: -f1,3,7 /etc/passwd | sort -t: -k2,2n

tyler_durden
 

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CPANPLUS::Shell(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells SYNOPSIS
use CPANPLUS::Shell; # load the shell indicated by your # config -- defaults to # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic] # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic; my $ui = CPANPLUS::Shell->new(); my $name = $ui->which; # Find out what shell you loaded $ui->shell; # run the ui shell DESCRIPTION
This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS" shell. Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp perl v5.16.3 2013-05-20 CPANPLUS::Shell(3)
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