On 20/04/10 23:33, Eric Blake wrote:
> * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention the conversion.
> ---
>
> How about this followup, copying the comment from Pádraig's patch into
> our documentation?
>
> doc/coreutils.texi | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
> index 7561f2a..ed620f3 100644
> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
> @@ -4126,6 +4126,11 @@ sort invocation
> @vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT
> On older systems, @command{sort} supports an obsolete origin-zero
> syntax @sam...@var{pos1} [...@var{pos2}]} for specifying sort keys.
> +The sequence @samp{sort +...@var{a}.@var{x} -...@var{b}.@var{y}}
> +translates to @samp{sort -...@var{a+1}.@var{x+1},@var{b}} if @var{y}
> +is @samp{0} or absent, otherwise it translates to @samp{sort
> +...@var{a+1}.@var{x+1},@var{b+...@var{y}}.
Looks good.
Hopefully this will encourage people to change from the old to new format.
Perhaps s/translates/is equivalent/; s/-k/-k /;
cheers,
Pádraig.
