Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:03:44 -0700 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <200209242103.OAA26698@windsor.research.att.com> References: <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <3D90CFD9.E0FB776A@mindspring.com>
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>Until "sh", "make", "tar", and so on also drop behaviours that are >not specified by POSIX, it's really silly to make "sort" drop them. It's not that the +x/-y argument syntax is not specified - it's that it's specifically disallowed. (I disagree with that restriction, but let's at least have the right argument.) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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