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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-04-30 22:35:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-04-30 22:35:54 +0000 |
| commit | 8fb3745a095149b51db1b895fba9ae0fb1479347 (patch) | |
| tree | 571e3d6a45972293115e9f7beb317e45c3f0e3d8 /doc | |
| parent | aaba44e6395a1c261f28a915e90041a1c56f891a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8fb3745a095149b51db1b895fba9ae0fb1479347.tar.xz | |
add emphasis that sort's -k M,N is inclusive
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/textutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi index 000670864..d1fdaffc7 100644 --- a/doc/textutils.texi +++ b/doc/textutils.texi @@ -2190,8 +2190,10 @@ check that no pair of consecutive lines compares equal. @cindex sort field The recommended, @sc{POSIX}, option for specifying a sort field. The field consists of the part of the line between @var{pos1} and @var{pos2} (or the -end of the line, if @var{pos2} is omitted), inclusive. Fields and -character positions are numbered starting with 1. See below. +end of the line, if @var{pos2} is omitted), @emph{inclusive}. +Fields and character positions are numbered starting with 1. +So to sort on the second field, you'd use @samp{-k 2,2} +See below for more examples. @item -z @opindex -z |