Hi,
Here is a suggested addition to the -t option documentation for sort.
I wasted hours on a mistake this would clairify, twice. And I know
for a fact of another person who has had the same confusion as well.
The favorite mistake is sorting "-k n" instead of "-k n,n" where "n"
is not the last field.
Thank GNU.
Regards,
Karl
Apply this patch with -p 1 in the textutils source directory.
----------------------<snip>---------------------
diff -ruN textutils-2.0/doc/textutils.texi textutils-2.0-moredoc/doc/textutils.texi
--- textutils-2.0/doc/textutils.texi Sat Jul 31 04:03:30 1999
+++ textutils-2.0-moredoc/doc/textutils.texi Thu Nov 30 14:21:08 2000
@@ -2265,7 +2265,9 @@
That is, given the input line @w{@samp{ foo bar}}, @code{sort} breaks it
into fields @w{@samp{ foo}} and @w{@samp{ bar}}. The field separator is
not considered to be part of either the field preceding or the field
-following.
+following. But note that sort fields that extend to the end of the line,
+as @samp{-k 2}, or sort fields consisting of a range, as @samp{-k 2,3},
+retain the field separators present between the endpoints of the range.
@item -u
@opindex -u
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