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bug#21356: BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes' give error
From: |
Stephane Chazelas |
Subject: |
bug#21356: BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes' give error |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:43:17 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
2015-08-27 16:18:51 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > info page:
[...]
> > It's easy to miss that it's not `-d[FROM]` here. A note along
> > these lines could help:
> >
> > "Note that the FROM value can only be specified with the long
> > option from."
>
> Done at:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=da5505dd7f
Thanks.
> I can't think of any suitably terse improvements for the man page.
[...]
Maybe something like:
-d use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
(starting at 0)
--numeric-suffixes[=FROM] same as above but allows changing the
starting value.
As in effect, they are different options.
--
Stephane