Re: sort feature requests

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> This should already be possible with a command such as:
> $ ( sed 1q ; sort [args] ) < [file]
>
> ...however it seems my version of sed (4.1.2-RH4) does not honor POSIX
> semantics and consumes too much of the input ('head' from
> coreutils-6.9 seems to have the same problem?) I did get 'read 4 ;
> echo $a' to work however.
>
> (Ok gnulib folks, I don't have any dates handy, is the fseek stuff
> newer than coreutils-6.9?)

Using head works for me, both with coreutils-5.97
and the very latest 6.9+:

    $ (echo 5; seq 3) > k; (head -1; sort -n) < k
    5
    1
    2
    3

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