Write Error

[New2DS]

Hello All,

I was using a ExecSH as a before routine in which I used a sort command to sort the specific columns. In development it worked perfectly well and in UAT it failed leaving the error.

sort: A write error occurred while sorting.

The command I used is

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sort -k5,5 -k10,10 -k1,1 file1 file2 > file3

Is this a permissions problem? or anything wrong in the command I used. The file contain around 20 million records.

-thanks

[chulett]

I'd say you ran out of space. Where are your 'temp' records going during the sort? You should redirect that out to someplace with plenty o' space, I think that is the -t option - check the man pages.

[ArndW]

Also, try to run the command directly from your command shell - it should give the same error and is certainly a lot easier to debug.

[New2DS]

You guys are great!!!!!! It was the space issue and I used the -T option and it worked fine. I should have thougth of this before but we learn new things from experience.

thanks