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Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:35:31 -0800
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

>       --seed=STRING         seed random hash function with STRING

That '--seed' part has got to go, or be changed.  The string typically
isn't long enough.  The arg should be a file instead, defaulting to
/dev/urandom.  I'll try to look into this.




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