Re: Surprising bug in sort

[Eric Blake]

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[re-adding the list]

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?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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