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@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ See also comments under `printf` for formatting precision and differences.
`seq` provides `-t`/`--terminator` to set the terminator character.
## `sort`
When sorting with `-g`/`--general-numeric-sort`, arbitrary precision decimal numbers
are parsed and compared, unlike GNU coreutils that uses platform-specific long
double floating point numbers.
Extremely large or small values can still overflow or underflow to infinity or zero,
see note in `seq`.
## `ls`
GNU `ls` provides two ways to use a long listing format: `-l` and `--format=long`. We support a