From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:17:48 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: sort: improve -u brief doc
X-Git-Tag: v9.7~34
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3324344820b6f3566ed659befe9bbfcf2b1f1298;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

sort: improve -u brief doc

* src/sort.c (usage): Reword -u help (Bug#76290).
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 4473987ef6..b10183b6f6 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -498,9 +498,8 @@ Other options:\n\
   -T, --temporary-directory=DIR  use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or %s;\n\
                               multiple options specify multiple directories\n\
       --parallel=N          change the number of sorts run concurrently to N\n\
-  -u, --unique              with -c, check for strict ordering;\n\
-                              without -c, output only the first of an equal run\
-\n\
+  -u, --unique              output only the first of lines with equal keys;\n\
+                              with -c, check for strict ordering\n\
 "), DEFAULT_TMPDIR);
       fputs (_("\
   -z, --zero-terminated     line delimiter is NUL, not newline\n\