MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

sort(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities sort(1)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

sort uses the following environment variable:

TMPDIR

contains the path name of the directory to be used for temporary ﬁles.

FILES

sort uses the following ﬁle:

/tmp/stm∗

temporary ﬁles used for merging and –o option. You can specify a different direc-

tory for temporary ﬁles using the

TMPDIR

environment variable. For further infor-

mation, see environ(3).

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 Successful completion. Also returned if –c is speciﬁed and the ﬁle is in correctly sorted

order.

1 Returned if you speciﬁed –c and the ﬁle is not correctly sorted. Also returned to indi-

cate a non-unique record if you speciﬁed –cu.

2 An error occurred.

Messages

Message: -position "endpos" must follow +position

Cause: You speciﬁed a –endpos option either before or without a +startpos option.

Action: Reverse the order of the – and + options on the command line, or provide the

missing +startpos option.

Message: Badly formed sort key position "pos"

Cause: You speciﬁed a sort key position pos that did not have a valid syntax.

Action: Check the Sorting Keys subsection of this man page for a description of the syn-

tax for sort key positions.

Message: input file "ﬁlename": system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

Message: insufficient memory for buffers

Cause: There were not enough free system resources for sort to allocate its buffers.

Action: Free up more resources.

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