Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal
The option in the man page is: --key=POS1[,POS2] which to me meant POS means an simple integer, but this did not provide the result I wanted. It was only through searching online did I realize that POS is a pattern. It is in fact explained later in the man page: POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position in the field... To prevent confusion, I would suggest something like "(see below ... )" against the --key option like this: --key=POS1[,POS2] (see below for POS pattern format) Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
