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bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:54:13 +0000 |
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On 29/11/15 22:44, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> tag 22057 notabug
> close 22057
> stop
>
> Hello Federico,
>
> On 11/29/2015 04:33 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
>> I suggest that we add a new flag to Sort, to skip certain number of lines
>> from the sorting and copy them verbatim to the output,
>>
>
> This feature has been previously discussed, and the current thought is not to
> add this functionality to sort,
> as a combination of head/sed with sort are already sufficient to perform the
> task.
>
> Please see discussion at the current list of pendong Coreutils items:
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_dec_2014.html
BTW upon publishing each of those summaries, this page is updated:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#sort
cheers,
Pádraig