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Shorthand on the sort page

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 06:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Shorthand on the sort page
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:05:38 +0800

Shorthand on the sort page

       --sort=WORD
              sort according to WORD: general-numeric  -g,  human-numeric  -h,
              month -M, numeric -n, random -R, version -V

is not going to be understood by the beginner. Sorry.

Only the Info page makes it clear what you are trying to say in this paragraph.
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