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New sort(1) feature -- sort by length
From: |
Ethan Baldridge |
Subject: |
New sort(1) feature -- sort by length |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:06:21 -0400 |
I had a list to sort at work today that needed to be in the format "A B
C D E... AA BB CC DD" but sort(1) only returns results as "A AA B BB C
CC".
So I wrote a patch to add -length-sort as an option. (-l was not taken
as a short option so I added that too).
Here it is attached as a unified diff. I tested it and it seems to work
naturally in conjunction with other operands, so I don't believe there
are likely to be problems.
--Ethan Baldridge
sort.diff
Description: sort.diff
- RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Ethan Baldridge, 2009/07/16
- New sort(1) feature -- sort by length,
Ethan Baldridge <=
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Pádraig Brady, 2009/07/17
- RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Ethan Baldridge, 2009/07/17
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Pádraig Brady, 2009/07/20
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Erik Auerswald, 2009/07/20
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Ethan Baldridge, 2009/07/23
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Pádraig Brady, 2009/07/23
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Jim Meyering, 2009/07/24