Hello, maybe I don't understand the manpage, because my english isn't very good. But I think that the manpage says that -k1,1 and -k1 is the same ... but it isn't.
[bastiaf:~]% mkdir a [bastiaf:~]% cd a [bastiaf:~/a]% touch a [bastiaf:~/a]% ln a b [bastiaf:~/a]% ln a c [bastiaf:~/a]% ls -liA | sort -uk1 378446 -rw-r----- 3 bastiaf bastiaf 0 Oct 23 21:59 a 378446 -rw-r----- 3 bastiaf bastiaf 0 Oct 23 21:59 b 378446 -rw-r----- 3 bastiaf bastiaf 0 Oct 23 21:59 c total 0 [bastiaf:~/a]% ls -liA | sort -uk1,1 378446 -rw-r----- 3 bastiaf bastiaf 0 Oct 23 21:59 a total 0 [bastiaf:~/a]% Manpage: -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it at POS 2 (origin 1) -Bastian Fuchs _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils