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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-04-29 01:35:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1996-04-29 01:35:18 +0000 |
| commit | 30f76e827e230970cba8fbd81ba4a06c14c3add6 (patch) | |
| tree | 411b8d099d70682ab620627fd24a969d2ccdaef5 | |
| parent | 8b9e784e1e1f9bf53fd831dba6677299857a31e4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-30f76e827e230970cba8fbd81ba4a06c14c3add6.tar.xz | |
(main): Give a better diagnostic for `sort -0'. Reported by Karl Berry.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index 1bd315f6c..224e7d34b 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -1773,7 +1773,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (digits[UCHAR (*s)] || (*s == '.' && digits[UCHAR (s[1])])) { if (!key) - usage (SORT_FAILURE); + { + /* Provoke with `sort -9'. */ + error (0, 0, _("when using the old-style +POS and -POS \ +key specifiers,\nthe +POS specifier must come first")); + usage (SORT_FAILURE); + } for (t = 0; digits[UCHAR (*s)]; ++s) t = t * 10 + *s - '0'; t2 = 0; |