sort: add -k, fix -u
Options that are specific to a single key definition are not supported (e.g. "sort -k 2,3n -k 4,4"). Should you try to specify such definitions, sort will return with EXIT_FAILURE and an error message. Instead, all key definitions exclusively use the global settings. It always behaves like -b was set.
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ sort \- sort lines
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B sort
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.RB [ \-nru ]
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.RB [ \-k
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.I key
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.R ]...
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.RI [ file ...]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B sort
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@@ -18,4 +21,18 @@ perform a numeric sort.
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reverses the sort.
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.TP
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.B \-u
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prints repeated lines only once.
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prints equal lines only once.
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.TP
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.B \-k key
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specifies a key definition of the form \fBS\fR[.\fBs\fR][,\fBE\fR[.\fBe\fR]],
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where
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.B S,
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.B s,
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.B E,
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and
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.B e
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are the starting column, starting character in that column, ending column and
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the ending character of that column respectively. If they are not specified,
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s refers to the first character of the specified starting column, E refers to
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the last column of every line, and e refers to the last character of that last
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column.
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