From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 01:35:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Give a better diagnostic for `sort -0'.  Reported by Karl Berry.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_14d~50
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30f76e827e230970cba8fbd81ba4a06c14c3add6;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): Give a better diagnostic for `sort -0'.  Reported by Karl Berry.
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 1bd315f6cf..224e7d34b4 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1773,7 +1773,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	  if (digits[UCHAR (*s)] || (*s == '.' && digits[UCHAR (s[1])]))
 	    {
 	      if (!key)
-		usage (SORT_FAILURE);
+		{
+		  /* Provoke with `sort -9'.  */
+		  error (0, 0, _("when using the old-style +POS and -POS \
+key specifiers,\nthe +POS specifier must come first"));
+		  usage (SORT_FAILURE);
+		}
 	      for (t = 0; digits[UCHAR (*s)]; ++s)
 		t = t * 10 + *s - '0';
 	      t2 = 0;