MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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

Message: insufficient memory for mapping table

Cause: There were not enough free system resources for sort to allocate to a charac-

ter mapping table for use with a –d, –f,or–i option.

Action: Free up more resources.

Message: line too long -- truncated

Cause: A record in your input ﬁle was longer than the maximum speciﬁed by the –z

option (or the default of LINE_MAX) and was truncated to that length.

Action: This message does not stop execution. To get the full record, re-run sort and

use the –z option to specify a larger maximum record size.

Message: Missing -o file

Cause: You speciﬁed the –o option without providing a ﬁle name as an argument.

Action: Provide the missing ﬁle name.

Message: Missing character after -t

Cause: You speciﬁed the –t option without providing a ﬁeld separator character as an

argument.

Action: Provide the missing ﬁeld separator character.

Message: Missing keydefinition after -k

Cause: You speciﬁed the –k option without providing a key deﬁnition as an argument.

Action: Provide the missing key deﬁnition.

Message: Must specify number in "-option string"

Cause: You speciﬁed the option –option which requires a numeric argument; however,

the argument string was not a valid number.

Action: Specify a valid number as the argument to –option.

Message: non-unique key in record: ...

Cause: You speciﬁed the –c and –u options and the indicated record had a sorting key

that duplicated that of another record.

Action: Remove one of the records with the duplicate key or expand the sorting key so

that the records are unique.

Message: not ordered properly at: ...

Cause: You speciﬁed the –c option to verify that the input ﬁle was sorted and the indi-

cated record was found to be out of order.

Action: Use sort to sort the ﬁle into the desired order.

Message: Only one character allowed after -t

Cause: You speciﬁed more than one character as the argument to the –t option.

Action: Specify only one character with –t.

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