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boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:

>In article <zynm!yh.messina@netcom.com>, messina@netcom.com (Tony
>Porczyk) writes:
>> to:
>> fprintf(stderr, "%s COMMAND\n", hdr);

>Yeah, right.  Information to stderr.

The question was simple - how not to have the header line sorted.  The answer
is equally simple - not having it in stdout will eliminate it from sorting
stdout.  

I suppose you don't like simple answers, spoils the fun of writing
buggy and convoluted shell scripts. 

BTW, since when is stderr reserved for "non-information"?  Frankly, I
say send to stderr anything that is non-essential in the redirection of
stdout or in piping of stdout, such as sorting.  Header line in this case
is *non-essential*.  Does that qualify it as "non-information"?

t.