Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:05:20 +0200 > From: "Joerg Schilling via austin-group-l at The Open Group" > <austin-group-l@opengroup.org> > Message-ID: <20210705180520.kgbgk%sch...@schily.net> > > | That would be in conflict with long existing practice.... > > Apparently not in most versions of sort.
If you call NetBSd "most versions".... it seems that all other sort implementations use a uniform definition for -S and Netbsd is in conflict with "all other sort implementations", at least with Solaris, GNU, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. > | If you like to disable -s, better use +s > > No, + options don't work in general, and would be even more difficult to > support in sort because of keeping backward compat with its old key > specification syntax. Given that the historic + usage with sort expects a digit past +, I see no conflict. > If we need a different option (really need) then we simply use a different > option (for which we'd simply allow both, the new, and -S). As mentioned, your proposal for -S is not compatible with most versions of sort. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/