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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 31 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f738d8399..1a2dba43e 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3467,20 +3467,6 @@ value as the directory for temporary files instead of @file{/tmp}. The @option{--temporary-directory} (@option{-T}) option in turn overrides the environment variable. -@vindex GNUSORT_COMPRESSOR -To improve performance when sorting very large files, GNU sort will, -by default, try to compress temporary files with the program -@file{gzip}. The environment variable @env{GNUSORT_COMPRESSOR} can be -set to the name of another program to be used. The program specified -must compress standard input to standard output when no arguments are -given to it, and it must decompress standard input to standard output -when the @option{-d} argument is given to it. If the program exits -with nonzero status, sort will terminate with an error. To disable -compression of temporary files, set the variable to the empty string. -Whitespace and the backslash character should not appear in the -program name. They are reserved for future use. - - The following options affect the ordering of output lines. They may be specified globally or as part of a specific key field. If no key fields are specified, global options apply to comparison of entire @@ -3647,6 +3633,23 @@ Other options are: @table @samp +@item --compress-program=@var{prog} +If @var{prog} is not the empty string, compress any temporary files +with the program @var{prog} rather than with the default compression +method. The default is currently @command{gzip} but this may change. + +With no arguments, @var{prog} must compress standard input to standard +output, and when given the @option{-d} option it must decompress +standard input to standard output. + +Terminate with an error if @var{prog} exits with nonzero status. + +Whitespace and the backslash character should not appear in +@var{prog}; they are reserved for future use. + +If @var{prog} is the empty string, do not compress temporary +files. + @item -k @var{pos1}[,@var{pos2}] @itemx --key=@var{pos1}[,@var{pos2}] @opindex -k |