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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Weird: unexpected result after piping a sort Post 302762493 by stavros on Monday 28th of January 2013 02:38:18 PM
Old 01-28-2013
@revri:
I am not sure I understant exactly you explanation but yes. it seems so.

Tested it on two installations as well. Same result for both.
Here they are:
1. Linux comet 2.6.32-41-generic #89-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 27 22:18:56 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
2. Linux testserv 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 17:30:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

-S

---------- Post updated at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:33 PM ----------

OK here is a recipe for all to try.
I tried it on 2 systems. One a "pure" Ubuntu.
Check "before and after" to make sure that there are no "rogue" files present.

Code:
70      mkdir tmp
71      ll
72      cd tmp/
73      ll
74      for i in 1 2 3 ; do
        touch $i.file
        done
75      ll
76      ls | sort
77      ls | sort > mysort
78      vi mysort

 

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