XSORT and the Clipboard

[Jay Sage]

The help says "Sort text files, standard output, and the clipboard" and "XSORT sorts text files, standard output, and the clipboard." That does not appear to be true.

[TCC34.00.16 | C:\temp]
>type clip:
3 three
1 one
2 two

[TCC34.00.16 | C:\temp]
>xsort clip:
TCC: (Sys) The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
 "clip:"

Perhaps that it not the correct syntax, but I tried a number of variations and could not find anything that worked. I also tried type clip: | xsort, and that did not work either. I also wasn't able to pipe a text file into xsort (type sort.txt | xsort). Some examples in the help file would be helpful.

Also, should XSORT be able to read the other pseudo devices (clip#:, tmp#:)?

P. S. The help for XSORT does not say anything about the default value for /type (though from my limited testing, the command works reasonably without any specification).

 

[Alpengreis]

Works her (now) for clip: ... maybe there was a fix for later build ... testet with build 20.

Does still not work for other pseudo devices ... I don't know if that is WAD or not.

 

[Joe Caverly]

TCC 34.00.20 x64 Windows 10 [Version 10.0.19045.5371]

R:\>type clip:
3 three
1 one
2 two
R:\>xsort clip:
1 one
2 two
3 three

Also Remove Duplicate Lines from a File

Joe