| Summary: | sort --debug should print the information to stderr instead stdout | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Wolfram Schneider <wosch> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | New --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | emaste, grahamperrin |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
sort --debug should print the information to stderr instead stdout BSD sort has a flag to display extract information (memory usage, collate, sort method). --debug Print some extra information about the sorting process to the standard output. e.g.: $ cat /dev/null | sort --debug Memory to be used for sorting: 34288343040 Using collate rules of C.UTF-8 locale sort_method=heapsort I do not like that the debug information is printed to the same file descriptor (stdout) as the normal output. $ date | sort | wc -l 1 $ date | sort --debug | wc -l 4 Proposed fix: print the debug information to stderr, similar to GNU sort.