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authorDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-09-27 23:40:08 +0000
committerDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-09-27 23:40:08 +0000
commita0ec5e6d29ce08b2f2472d1cc16b0d7b006ebb55 (patch)
treef123191ba91c90bef630a7eda04f53ccc174adc6 /usr.bin/sort/sort.1
parentab818fa8908bb05ac7e1579de18648ebd8af2a05 (diff)
add a -z option that allows you to split records on the nul character
('\0'). useful in combination with things like "find . -print0" and "xargs -0". for dewi, a chump. ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/sort/sort.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/sort/sort.16
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1 b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1
index e42e6435dea..39f25c29e64 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sort/sort.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sort/sort.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.21 2003/07/14 12:56:07 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sort.1,v 1.22 2005/09/27 23:40:07 dlg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Nd sort or merge text files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sort
-.Op Fl cmubdfinrH
+.Op Fl cmubdfinrzH
.Op Fl t Ar char
.Op Fl R Ar char
.Oo
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ option replaces the obsolescent options
.Cm \(pl Ns Ar pos1
and
.Fl Ns Ar pos2 .
+.It Fl z
+Uses the nul character as the record separator.
.El
.Pp
The following operands are available: