GNU bug report logs - #21356
BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes' give error

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Tareque Md Khan <mohdtarequekhan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 21356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 21356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tareque Md Khan <mohdtarequekhan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#21356: BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes'
 give error
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:43:17 +0100

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
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