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According to Jim Meyering on 8/18/2008 10:25 AM:
>>> 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)"?
>
> Sounds good. Want to write the patch?
>
Attached, or 'git pull git://repo.or.cz/coreutils/ericb.git sort'.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>From edd292f8d4a5845bcc0d01ab080a6fc9f51a36fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] sort: improve usage wording
* src/sort.c (usage): Mention that -k defaults to end of line if
POS2 omitted.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Tim Ryan.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
THANKS | 1 +
src/sort.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 021ff6a..ea07d07 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim J. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+Tim Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim Smithers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toby Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index a617517..37eb854 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ Other options:\n\
NUL-terminated names in file F\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
- -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1)\n\
+ -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2\n\
+ (default end of line)\n\
-m, --merge merge already sorted files; do not sort\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
--
1.5.6.4
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