Re: address@hidden: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order]

[Pádraig Brady]

Martin Sarfy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> attached there is a patch against coreutils-6.10/sort.c implementing
> "Natural order sorting" (e.g. "A1" < "A2" < "A10"), using "-N" parameter.
> 
> Please, consider it's inclusion in upstream :-)
> 
> Signing papers with copyright is not a problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin Sarfy
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Eggert <address@hidden> -----
> 
> To: Martin Sarfy <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:10:04 -0700
> 
> Could you please send this directly to address@hidden
> Also, assuming it meets favor there, will you and your employer be willing
> to sign papers assigning copyright to the FSF?
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks very much for that. However I think this option
added in release 7.0 covers this functionality?

-V, --version-sort
       natural sort of (version) numbers within text

Could you check if your patch handles cases that -V doesn't?

cheers,
Pádraig.