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Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:21:01PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: >> I just noticed a bunch of my scripts, many that I've had in production >> for over 20 years, are suddenly breaking. It turns out some idiot >> decided it would be a good idea to remove the "+" option from sort(1), >> which tells it which field to sort on. >> >> sort(1) still works fine on my older systems, but the ones I've kept >> up to date with yum are now in need of a lot of pointless unscheduled >> maintenance. > > IIRC GNU is m,aking an effort to make all the command line option > compliant w/one of the POSIX standards. They broke tail as well. So basically I would have to downgrade coreutils to before they started breaking things, and then configure yum to never upgrade coreutils? -- John Abreau IT Manager Zuken USA 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 Westford, MA 01886 T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 M: 978-764-8934 E: John.Abreau at zuken.com W: www.zuken.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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