On 2010-09-08 18:24 +0200, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote: >> coreutils version (from man page): >> GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty > > That seems like a weird version - normally, the only people that > should be running a -dirty version are those actually developing from > coreutils.git; but since we have long since moved past 6.9, I'm > assuming you got your coreutils pre-built as part of a distro. Rather > than relying on a possibly broken man page, what does 'sort --version' > state? At any rate, you may want to report the broken man page to your > distro, to get them to fix it to report a saner string.
He's running coreutils 6.10, I reported the weird version in the manpages back in January 2008¹. Probably it's not important enough for distros to fix this. Sven ¹ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00219.html
