[BusyBox] Re: sort/find in busybox used in dev env.

[Glenn McGrath]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:33:03 +0100 (CET)
"Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > updatedb (findutils) requires -f and -r, missing from busybox sort
> > ncurses uses sort -u at built time.
> ncurses requires sort to support not -u, but +<number>
> sorry

>From the GNU sort info page.

On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax
`+POS1 [-POS2]' for specifying sort keys.  POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note
Standards conformance::) does not allow this; use `-k' instead.

Busybox sort just supports the current POSIX behaviour.



Glenn