Debian Bug report logs - #441805
coreutils: Clarification of sort -u -c

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From: Reuben Thomas <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: coreutils: Clarification of sort -u -c

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:32:53 +0100

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: minor

The man page documentation for sort -u -c is a bit unclear; the info
documentation is much better, so I suggest the following change to the
man page:

       -u, --unique
              with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run

should become

       -u, --unique
              with -c, check that no pair of consecutive lines compares equal; without -c, output only the first of an equal run

i.e. the description of "with -c" is changed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                      2.2.42-1    Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                        2.6.1-1+b1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

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