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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-12-12 07:24:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-12-12 07:24:31 +0000 |
| commit | e31480005af57d7ac29d4d9562c3e7b200dbc7ef (patch) | |
| tree | aa4360c51b51831eadc2124095db824a4ad24ee4 /doc | |
| parent | ec61e1b8fe4fba73691cba0801629882adbf327e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e31480005af57d7ac29d4d9562c3e7b200dbc7ef.tar.xz | |
(join invocation): Mention that blank separators
in the -o option need to be quoted.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 5b0071cea..7a811be5f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4725,6 +4725,10 @@ field specification notation. The elements in @var{field-list} are separated by commas or blanks. +Blank separators typically need to be quoted for the shell. For +example, the commands @samp{join -o 1.2,2.2} and @samp{join -o '1.2 +2.2'} are equivalent. + All output lines---including those printed because of any -a or -v option---are subject to the specified @var{field-list}. |