Re: Sort problem . .

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:46

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In article <1992Jul31.115559.11391@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>Splitting something up ps to put the header to stderr and the rest of
>data to stdout is a myopic solution.

   Agreed.  I consider the header to be "useful" information.  I've used it
plenty of times in shell scripts to decide what field in the rest of the
output was the one I wanted, since it's almost impossible to expect that
different implementations of PS will ever be otherwise compatible. 
It's not just there for humans to read!  Don't mess with it.

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