Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/17/2008 10:07 PM: >>> Thank you very much for the clarification, it makes perfect sense to me >>> now - as I said I was surprised that I appeared to have found a bug. >>> >>> I have now reread the documentation and I still don't think it is >>> particularly clear... >>> "-k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 >>> (origin 1)" >>> ...does not mean to me that if I don't supply POS2 then include all >>> fields to the end of the line, but there you go, I don't claim to be a >>> Unix expert. >> >> This question comes up frequently. Is there some wording we can use to >> make it more obvious that omitting POS2 implies end of line, while still >> being brief enough for --help output? > > "...end it at POS2 (or the end of the line, if omitted)"?
"...end it at POS2 (default end of line)" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
