From 32cea0d8ae4e3226ed1a782051189569f9e9e452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:48:05 +0000 Subject: Remove mention of --seed. --- doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/coreutils.texi | 14 +------------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index f821eb784..3b7362295 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert + + * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since + it's going away. + 2006-05-04 Eric Blake * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf