Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort

[Eric Blake]

> > 
> > The man page is generated from the --help output, I believe.
> 
> ...okay, that makes things harder but not impossible. I'll see what I
> can do. Would local etiquette require beginning a new thread with the
> eventual patch, or would here be fine?

Either would be fine, although if it were me I would start a new thread.
As for finding the --help output, most of the coreutils have a usage()
method in src/<utilname>.c, including rm in your case:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/coreutils/coreutils/src/rm.c?rev=1.137&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

For instructions on getting coreutils CVS checked out, see:
https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=coreutils

Coreutils then uses a bundled help2man perl script to create the
man pages, so you can test that your patch worked.

> Instead, I'll just ask how
> exactly I'm supposed to make sure that one and *only* one copy of any
> messages I receive from the list gets sorted into the folder in which I
> keep list messages... while simultaneously making sure that any messages
> which happen to have been replies to list messages but which are not
> sent through the list do *not* wind up in that folder?

Well, if you are a list subscriber, then login to the very bottom of
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

>From there, you can select:

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Eric Blake