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bug#29044: sort --debug results improvement
From: |
Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
bug#29044: sort --debug results improvement |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:26:13 +0800 |
$ sort -k 2n -k 3n --debug file.txt
sort: using simple byte comparison
sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
sort: key 2 is numeric and spans multiple fields
41 011 92.3 亞太
___
____
________________
41 011 97.1 大漢
___
____
OK but they look like they only span one field.
Also the user is confused if
________________
is a "key 3", or just a separator.
Therefore please say
": key 1" or "1" etc. at the end of each of them.
This is also important if there many keys.
And add a separator bar, made of -, =, etc. but not _.
Also the Info documentation doesn't mention how to inflence
"sort: using simple byte comparison"
which seems to always be printed when using --debug no matter what.
- bug#29044: sort --debug results improvement,
Dan Jacobson <=