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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-05-25 16:48:05 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-05-25 16:48:05 +0000 |
commit | 32cea0d8ae4e3226ed1a782051189569f9e9e452 (patch) | |
tree | b39bdd1ffdf7e9d94c0ac054750696f903fa0637 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
parent | 5002b0ba7930677271bc42a2e291779a3e02bc62 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-32cea0d8ae4e3226ed1a782051189569f9e9e452.tar.xz |
Remove mention of --seed.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 3320a0817..c84335f78 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3485,8 +3485,7 @@ appear earlier in the output instead of later. @cindex random sort Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values. This is much like a random shuffle of the inputs, except that keys with the -same value sort together. Normally the hash function is chosen at -random, but this can be overridden with the @option{--seed} option. +same value sort together. The hash function is chosen at random. @end table @@ -3624,17 +3623,6 @@ This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{perl -0} or reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks or other special characters). -@item --seed=@var{string} -@opindex --seed -@cindex seed for random hash -Use data from @var{string} to choose the hash function used by the -@option{--random-sort} option. This option can be used to reproduce -results of earlier invocations of @command{sort} with -@option{--random-sort}. However, results are not necessarily -reproducible across different @command{sort} implementations (e.g., -@command{sort} on little-endian versus big-endian architectures, or -from one version of @command{sort} to the next). - @end table Historical (BSD and System V) implementations of @command{sort} have |