GNU bug report logs - #34490
console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:21:37 +0800

Can you please have assure the user in that message it makes
that it has indeed seen his -n/--numeric-sort.

$ sort --debug
sort: using simple byte comparison
$ sort --debug --numeric-sort
sort: using simple byte comparison
                   ^^^^ unchanged. User gets nervous.

sort (GNU coreutils) 8.30. Sorry we discussed this before but kinda hard to find...
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 150 days ago.

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