I am having a problem with trying to sort a pipe-delimited file using the cygwin sort command from a dos batch file. If I enter the command in cygwin environment, it works fine:
sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt But I have problems running it from a dos batch file. It appears to work in Windows XP but not in Windows 2000. The command in the batch file is: bash -c "sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt" In Win XP it executes without a problem, but in Win 2000, I get a message the says, "Input file specified two times," as if it does not recognize the -o option. If I put the sort command in an echo, I get the results I would expect, so the -o is not lost: bash -c "echo sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt" Rearranging the arguements and adding extra escape characters in various combinations don't seem to help. Any ideas, please? --- Lisbeth Kellogg Office: 651-675-2610 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/