/* sort - sort lines of text (with all kinds of options).
- Copyright (C) 88, 1991-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 88, 1991-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.\n\
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+POS1 [-POS2] start a key at POS1, end it *before* POS2 (obsolescent)\n\
- field numbers and character offsets are numbered\n\
+ field numbers and character offsets are numbered\n\
starting with zero (contrast with the -k option)\n\
-b ignore leading blanks in sort fields or keys\n\
-c check if given files already sorted, do not sort\n\
-g compare according to general numerical value, imply -b\n\
-i consider only printable characters in keys\n\
-k POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it *at* POS2\n\
- field numbers and character offsets are numbered\n\
+ field numbers and character offsets are numbered\n\
starting with one (contrast with zero-based +POS form)\n\
-m merge already sorted files, do not sort\n\
-M compare (unknown) < `JAN' < ... < `DEC', imply -b\n\
-S SIZE use SIZE for main memory sorting\n\
-t SEP use SEParator instead of non- to whitespace transition\n\
-T DIRECTORY use DIRECTORY for temporary files, not $TMPDIR or %s\n\
- multiple -T options specify multiple directories\n\
+ multiple -T options specify multiple directories\n\
-u with -c, check for strict ordering;\n\
with -m, only output the first of an equal sequence\n\
-z end lines with 0 byte, not newline, for find -print0\n\