Kreuzer IT Support wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a backup script running which uses sort in order to process those > files first which are modified last. > > I use find (pruning several paths) as input for afio, here for the filelist: > > > find / -path /proc -prune -o -path /tmp -prune -o -path /opt -prune -o > -path /usr/src -prune -o -path /dev/pts -prune -o -path /dev/shm -prune -o > -path /daten/tmp -prune -o -path /daten/backup -prune -o -path > /daten/install -prune -o -path /daten/src -prune -o -printf '%p; [EMAIL > PROTECTED]' | > sort +1 -n -r > /daten/tmp/filelist.txt > > You can see the result in http://www.kreuzer-it.com/filelist.txt > > As you will notice, the sort for column +1 does it's job only until line > 117452. Afterwards, the files are assorted.
I haven't looked at the file in detail, but a couple of suggestions: 1. Use the sort syntax as implemented in: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/newest 2. If that doesn't sort it (pardon the pun) put a LANG=C in front of the sort command to try to eliminate possible locale issues. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
