Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:28:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Specifying sort fields Message-ID: <20040423142804.GB4463@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEKIFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <20040422213441.GC4370@dan.emsphone.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEKIFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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In the last episode (Apr 23), JJB said:
> Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info
> does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to
> feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background
> going to read that and know how to feed sort it's data to sort? Don't
> you think the man sort info needs updating to explain this fact?
> Even some examples at end of technical info would go long way to
> making the 'man sort' info user friendly and meaningfully.
Well, it does, sort of:
SYNOPSIS
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
and a bit farther down:
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
I agree that examples would be nice.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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