"Karl O. Pinc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Here is a suggested addition to the -t option documentation for sort.
| I wasted hours on a mistake this would clairify, twice. And I know
| for a fact of another person who has had the same confusion as well.
|
| The favorite mistake is sorting "-k n" instead of "-k n,n" where "n"
| is not the last field.
...
| +following. But note that sort fields that extend to the end of the line,
| +as @samp{-k 2}, or sort fields consisting of a range, as @samp{-k 2,3},
| +retain the field separators present between the endpoints of the range.
Applied. Thanks!
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