On 07/10/15 09:43, Philip Hands wrote: > Hi Micheal, > > A conversation on #debconf-team this morning which mentioned the use of > sort -R revealed that people that have been bitten by the quirks of > sort -R have a folkloric understanding that there's something not quite > right about it compared with what they want, but that even people that > understand that are not necessarily aware of shuf. > > Since shuf does the thing that people are most often wanting, how about > just adding a note to the -R option to say something like: > > you probably want shuf(1) instead
Done upstream at: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.24-52-ge50f527 > As a data point, I've been aware that GNU commands are documented in > info for over two decades, but having uselessly invoked info only to be > looking at a strangely formatted version of the man page again (because > the real info has been kicked into non-free due to GFDL problems) I > don't think it would occur to me to consult the info if looking at the > sort man page. Note since 8.24, sort man page now points to http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort cheers, Pádraig.
