2010/6/17 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com>: > On 17/06/10 03:07, Peng Yu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The modifiers of -k are discussed in the examples in 'info sort' >> rather than in the main entry of "-k". I feel that this be improved by >> clearly describe each modifier under the main entry of "-k". It is not >> very clear to how many modifiers there are. >> > > The sort --help (man) output has been improved lately, > to group the ordering options, and these are referenced in > the detailed description of POS > You are looking at the latest version right? > Would the following be enough to highlight the info you might have missed? > > --- a/src/sort.c > +++ b/src/sort.c > @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ Other options:\n\ > "), stdout); > fputs (_("\ > -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2\n\ > - (default end of line)\n\ > + (default end of line). See POS syntax below\n\ > -m, --merge merge already sorted files; do not sort\n\ > "), stdout); > fputs (_("\
Is it in the latest version? If yes, I'll install it. coreutils-8.5.tar.xz.sig 23-Apr-2010 12:42 836 BTW, how to figure out what version of my coreutils is? I 'man sort', it shows the following at the bottom of that page. I don't understand 7.4 is of date March 2010, it should be May 2009 according to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/, right? GNU coreutils 7.4 March 2010 SORT(1) -- Regards, Peng