Re: Surprising bug in sort

[Matthew Woehlke]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to address@hidden 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)"?

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Matthew
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