sort - numeric sorting for human readable numbers

[Dwayne Bailey]

Hi,

It would be great if 'sort' could correctly sort numbers such as:1K 234M 
2G.  So that a list

30K
20M
1G

Is considered correctly sorted.

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Kind regards
Dwayne Bailey

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