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| -rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index c81c51e31..5c1973a0a 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -2242,9 +2242,14 @@ but lacks following character offset")); if (checkonly) { + if (nfiles > 1) + error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, + _("too many arguments; with -c, there may be at most + one file argument")); + /* POSIX requires that sort return 1 IFF invoked with -c and the input is not properly sorted. */ - exit (check (files, nfiles) == 0 ? 0 : 1); + exit (check (files, nfiles) == 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : 1); } if (!STREQ (outfile, "-")) |