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Diffstat (limited to 'make.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | make.1 | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.280 2020/04/27 20:03:08 christos Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.282 2020/06/06 20:28:42 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" -.Dd April 27, 2020 +.Dd June 5, 2020 .Dt MAKE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1196,10 +1196,8 @@ but selects all words which do not match .Ar pattern . .It Cm \&:O Order every word in variable alphabetically. -To sort words in -reverse order use the -.Ql Cm \&:O:[-1..1] -combination of modifiers. +.It Cm \&:Or +Order every word in variable in reverse alphabetical order. .It Cm \&:Ox Randomize words in variable. The results will be different each time you are referring to the @@ -1433,7 +1431,7 @@ If only .Ar old_string contains the pattern matching character .Ar % , -and +and .Ar old_string matches, then the result is the .Ar new_string . @@ -1614,6 +1612,11 @@ then the words are output in reverse order. For example, .Ql Cm \&:[-1..1] selects all the words from last to first. +If the list is already ordered, then this effectively reverses +the list, but it is more efficient to use +.Ql Cm \&:Or +instead of +.Ql Cm \&:O:[-1..1] . .\" :[*] .It Cm \&* Causes subsequent modifiers to treat the value as a single word |