Re: 'sort' command -- support more than one field-delimiter

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-10-16 08:44, Dani Moncayo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:41 AM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
> wrote:
> > On 2023-10-16 08:35, Dani Moncayo wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:19 AM Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Maybe someone could figure out a better way of specifying several
> > >> field-delimiters.
> > >
> > > Perhaps a long option, like:
> > > $ sort --field-separators=" /" -n -k5 -k3 -k4 file1.txt
> >
> > Hmm, maybe an even longer one, "--field-separators-list", to make it
> > 100% obvious it's a list of separators?
>
> I'd be fine with that, too.  (I'm not a native English speaker, but I
> think that should be "--field-separator-list").

Strictly grammatically, that's a bit debatable.  In general, it should 
use the singular form, but in this particular case, the plural form 
simply feels better, which of course is subjective.  (I'm not a native 
English speaker either.)