On 12/07/2015 11:07 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > This confusion happens often enough that I installed the attached > documentation patch to try to make things clearer.
Should we also modify this paragraph in 'sort --help'? Maybe: > KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where F is a > field number and C a character position in the field; both are origin 1, and > the stop position defaults to the line's end. If neither -t nor -b is in > effect, characters in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding > whitespace. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfgiMhnRrV], > which override global ordering options for that key. If no key is given, use >-the entire line as the key. >+the entire line as the key. Use --debug to diagnose incorrect key usage. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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