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documentation error: wrong command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>

Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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

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From: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: documentation error: wrong command
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:46:56 +0200

Hi,

I found an error in the info page for version 8.31.
As linked below, in the join(1) documentation, the 3rd line is

sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq

but should be

sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq -u

I wonder, why no one noticed, or bothered to report it.
Anyway, great documentation! This section is mind opening.

Martin Castillo


[1]:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Set-operations.html#Set-operations
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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>, 35849-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35849: documentation error: wrong command
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 14:53:54 +0100

On 21/05/19 16:46, Martin Castillo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found an error in the info page for version 8.31.
> As linked below, in the join(1) documentation, the 3rd line is
> 
> sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq
> 
> but should be
> 
> sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq -u
> 
> I wonder, why no one noticed, or bothered to report it.
> Anyway, great documentation! This section is mind opening.

Fixed in your name.
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f38974

This was correct in the original source:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#sets

thanks,
Pádraig.
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