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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-01-12 16:29:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-01-13 10:59:18 +0000 |
| commit | b2eadd109c3a508011705761dfe24a35180d925d (patch) | |
| tree | 7efae6e5d2ba65a74b2e22e1160f0dd6a4013ce6 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | d44ae88199ebf44fe721c06621a7ffc442fa34be (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b2eadd109c3a508011705761dfe24a35180d925d.tar.xz | |
join,sort,uniq: with -z, treat '\n' as a field separator
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (newlineFieldSeparator): A new description,
referenced from ({join,sort,uniq} invocation).
* src/system.h (field_sep): A new inline function to determine
if a character is a field separator.
* src/join.c (usage): s/whitespace/blank/ to be more accurate
wrt which characters are field separators.
(xfields): s/isblank/field_sep/.
* src/sort.c (inittables): Likewise.
* src/uniq.c (find_field): Likewise.
* tests/misc/join.pl: Adjust -z test, and add a test/example
for processing the whole record with field processing.
* tests/misc/sort.pl: Add -z test cases, including case with '\n'.
* tests/misc/uniq.pl: Add -z -f test case with \n.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 25380628d..80e9a032d 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4493,6 +4493,9 @@ numeric string when checking for uniqueness, whereas @code{sort -n | uniq} inspects the entire line. @xref{uniq invocation}. @optZeroTerminated +@macro newlineFieldSeparator +Note with @option{-z} the newline character is treated as a field separator. +@end macro @end table @@ -5034,6 +5037,7 @@ fields and characters). By default the entire rest of the lines are compared. @optZeroTerminated +@newlineFieldSeparator @end table @@ -6157,6 +6161,7 @@ Print a line for each unpairable line in file @var{file-number} (either @samp{1} or @samp{2}), instead of the normal output. @optZeroTerminated +@newlineFieldSeparator @end table |