hblock via Cmder terminates on '| sort -u'

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hblock terminates at the "Sort entries" command using Cmder on Windows (10).

λ sh hblock -O "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
--- 8< ---
   - Sort entries
-uThe operation completed successfully.

Of course, nothing actually completed successfully. (See below for sort behavoir.)

On line 217, changing | sort -u to | sort | uniq allows hblock to actually complete successfully. :)

λ sh hblock -O "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
--- 8< ---
   - Sort entries
   - Add new destination
 + Generating hosts file...
 + 50218 hosts added!

Making the same edit on a Linux VM (CentOS-7.2.1511) showed identical write and sort behavior between | sort -u and | sort | uniq.

Comparing the output files of each with diff only shows a difference in commented time stamps.

xD

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edit

Sort as provided by Cmder is a Windows command, hence the incompatibility.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491004.aspx

λ cat sortme
XX          
bb          
cc          
aa          
bb          
cc          
xX          
cc          
xx          

λ cat sortme | sort
aa                 
bb                 
bb                 
cc                 
cc                 
cc                 
xx                 
xX                 
XX                 

λ cat sortme | sort -u
-uThe operation completed successfully.
cat: write error: No space left on device

λ cat sortme | uniq
XX                 
bb                 
cc                 
aa                 
bb                 
cc                 
xX                 
cc                 
xx                 

λ cat sortme | sort | uniq
aa
bb
cc
xx
xX
XX

Just to show there is really space left on device :) sort in Cmder is being silly.

λ df -h | head -1 && df -h | tail -1
Filesystem                                               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
N:/Users/Username/Downloads/cmder/vendor/git-for-windows  932G  294G  638G  32% /