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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2015-04-05 14:20:22 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2015-04-05 14:20:22 +0000 |
| commit | a6e32a4c6e2d49ec8477ece1a38406d814308055 (patch) | |
| tree | e59d9563a957478042a5e2c2b79f9bb0340a4027 | |
| parent | For the -g flag, treat non-floating point keys as 0, similar to -n. (diff) | |
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Document that some sorts uses -b w/o key fields.
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sort/sort.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 index 7d927290254..c1c9f21e89f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 +++ b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.53 2015/04/05 13:56:04 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.54 2015/04/05 14:20:22 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -585,6 +585,17 @@ Some are provided for compatibility with GNU .Nm , others are specific to this implementation. .Pp +Some implementations of +.Nm +honor the +.Fl b +option even when no key fields are specified. +This implementation follows historic practice and +.St -p1003.1-2008 +in only honoring +.Fl b +when it precedes a key field. +.Pp The historic practice of allowing the .Fl o option to appear after the |