you can work around any compatibility problems by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment. (/etc/environment) That should fix the script that would break. This actually changed in FC5 btw. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fedora+core+5+environment+posix +standard+change&btnG=Google+Search http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:FN-YSsFW_Z0J:fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/+fedora+core+5+environment+posix+standard+change&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:37 -0500, Dave Martin wrote: > So, what happened to the sort command? > > > >sort -f 4 -d ' ' foo > sort: open failed: 4: No such file or directory > > >sort +4 foo > sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory > > > That's going to break a lot of scripts. > > > -- > Dave > ----- > Nobody believed that I could build a space station here. So I built it anyway. > It sank into the vortex. So I built another one. It sank into the vortex. > The third station burned down, fell over then sank into the vortex. The fourth > station just vanished. And the fifth station, THAT stayed! > -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing Computing Services Center 200 225-578-7202 fax: 225-578-6400 ahough@xxxxxxx
