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Re: sort - specifying sort fields/keys.
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cga2000 |
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Re: sort - specifying sort fields/keys. |
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Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:03:24 -0400 |
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:37:46PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
[..]
> It is a tragedy that the two largest and most active free software
> communities are on opposing sides of this issue.
I researched this further and found that:
1. There is a nicely structured version of the gnu screen manual in
texinfo format on my debian system. I mean since it's "gnu screen"
there had to be an info version of the manual.
2. The texinfo coreutils package is also available on my debian "etch"
system .. and that includes proper documentation of the sort utility
So you only need to type:
$ info coreutils sort
.. rather than,
$ info sort
.. as "man sort" curiously recommends .. and there you have it, the
compleat gnu sort manual!
No idea if this was part of my base install, or I fished it out of
some non-debian repository and forgot all about it.
3. There is a rather nice info browser called "pinfo" that uses color
(only 8/16 of them unfortunately -- yes, I like "pretty" and text
displayed in cyan, magenta .. etc. is not really my favorite) .. but
more importantly pinfo has default keyboard keys that match my vimmer
habits i.e. you navigate the links to the different nodes via "hjkl"
and <Enter> so I can focus on reading the doc rather than navigation
aspects. Also, hitting <Enter> on a www/mail link launches my
browser or mailer automatically .. neat!
A bit OT, that.. but I thought worth the few extra lines.