From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:28:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (sort invocation): Clarify how -t works when
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_9~39
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b9cb7ea23473568ca7ec6cdd2983192e2a4e215;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(sort invocation): Clarify how -t works when
a sort key specifies a range of fields.  From Karl O. Pinc.
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diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index c48b41f1c2..f9baa9b327 100644
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -2269,7 +2269,9 @@ string between a non-whitespace character and a whitespace character.
 That is, given the input line @w{@samp{ foo bar}}, @code{sort} breaks it
 into fields @w{@samp{ foo}} and @w{@samp{ bar}}.  The field separator is
 not considered to be part of either the field preceding or the field
-following.
+following.  But note that sort fields that extend to the end of the line,
+as @samp{-k 2}, or sort fields consisting of a range, as @samp{-k 2,3},
+retain the field separators present between the endpoints of the range.
 
 @item -T @var{tempdir}
 @opindex -T