How to use sort?

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I am trying to list the contents of a directory and sort them, and to do this, I am using the command

rclone lsd "GSuite_Crypt:Dropbox" | sort -k 2

to sort the output of lsd by name. When I run this command, however, I get the error:

Input file specified two times

Am I doing something wrong here? What does this mean?

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Looks good to me:

felix@gemini:~$ rclone lsd GD: | sort -k 2
          -1 2019-09-29 21:57:58        -1 crypt
          -1 2020-03-10 05:20:13        -1 test
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How come it throws an error? I don't understand why it complains if that should work.

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What's the output of that command without the sort? Does it work?

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Removing the sort works, yes. It lists the directories like I'd expect

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works for me

user01@EN07:/mnt/c/data/rclone/scripts$ rclone lsd wasabieast2: | sort -k 2
          -1 2019-10-18 15:14:53        -1 vserver03
          -1 2019-12-23 11:30:52        -1 vserver03-bjv.h.vserver03.g.ampe01
          -1 2020-01-16 12:05:36        -1 encbucket
          -1 2020-02-17 11:20:38        -1 handbrake01
          -1 2020-03-16 19:27:17        -1 thetestbucket
          -1 2020-03-22 13:32:45        -1 en07

what version of rclone are you using?

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I'm using version 1.51.0

9

What OS are you using?

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10

I'm using Windows 10

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that command will not work on windows as is, as it is written to be used on linux.
you need to tweak it.

if you install WSL - windows subsystem for linux, then you can run it

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Ah, OK. I didn't know there were commands in rclone that were Linux specific.

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rclone works the same on windows and linux.

however, the sort command, that is not part of rclone but the underlying operating system.

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Oh, it's a Linux thing. OK.

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