Re: sort -nu: bug or feature?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Paul,

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:33:17PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I changed the documentation as follows to try to help clarify things.

thanks to Andrew for noticing this and to Paul for the doc fix.

But I think the documentation still misses one thing, see the patch below.

Stepan

2004-09-09  Stepan Kasal  <address@hidden>

        * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Explain interaction of --unique
          with the last-resort comparison.

--- coreutils-5.0/doc/coreutils.texi.orig       2003-04-02 20:19:11.000000000 
+0200
+++ coreutils-5.0/doc/coreutils.texi    2004-09-09 10:22:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -2854,7 +2854,11 @@
 Finally, as a last resort when all keys compare equal (or if no ordering
 options were specified at all), @command{sort} compares the entire lines.
 The last resort comparison honors the @option{--reverse} (@option{-r})
-global option.  The @option{--stable} (@option{-s}) option disables this
+global option.  If a field or a global option was specified, the
address@hidden (@option{-u}) option disables this last-resort
+comparison.
+
+The @option{--stable} (@option{-s}) option also disables the
 last-resort comparison so that lines in which all fields compare equal
 are left in their original relative order.  If no fields or global
 options are specified, @option{--stable} (@option{-s}) has no effect.