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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-21 21:47:37 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-21 21:47:37 +0000 |
| commit | 4b348717636384ff0aa6b1bb812106056ffa9ceb (patch) | |
| tree | 6f519de5c6f3bc71d744cf36bbba4ffd026dba53 | |
| parent | sort options, and generally shuffle around; do not give "file operands" its own (diff) | |
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typo/grammar fixes;
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sort/sort.1 | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 index a5df30f8712..c54c1a2ecef 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 +++ b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.49 2015/03/21 21:30:58 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.50 2015/03/21 21:47:37 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ If the input is too big to fit into the memory buffer, temporary files are used. .It Fl s Stable sort; maintains the original record order of records that have -and equal key. +an equal key. This is a non-standard feature, but it is widely accepted and used. .It Fl T Ar dir , Fl Fl temporary-directory Ns = Ns Ar dir Store temporary files in the directory @@ -148,9 +148,10 @@ equivalents to be the same for purposes of comparison. Sort by general numerical value. As opposed to .Fl n , -this option handles general floating points, which have a much -permissive format than those allowed by -. Fl n , +this option handles general floating points. +It has a more +permissive format than that allowed by +.Fl n but it has a significant performance drawback. .It Fl h, Fl Fl human-numeric-sort, Fl Fl sort=human-numeric Sort by numerical value, but take into account the SI suffix, @@ -498,16 +499,16 @@ By default, if we specify .Fl t with the same symbol as the thousand separator or decimal point, the symbol will be treated as the field separator. -Older behavior was less definite; the symbol was treated as both field +Older behavior was less definite: the symbol was treated as both field separator and numeric separator, simultaneously. This environment variable enables the old behavior. .It Ev LANG Used as a last resort to determine different kinds of locale-specific -behavior if neither the respective environment variable, nor +behavior if neither the respective environment variable nor .Ev LC_ALL are set. .It Ev LC_ALL -Locale settings that override all of the above locale settings. +Locale settings that override all of the other locale settings. This environment variable can be used to set all these settings to the same value at once. .It Ev LC_COLLATE |