Re: Sort log files solution

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/09/2022 03:47, Ray Phillips wrote:
> I presume the solution provided on this page:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sort-invocation.html#sort-invocation
>
> to the "Sort a set of log files, primarily by IPv4 address and
> secondarily by timestamp." problem is for an earlier version of sort,
> since (unless I'm mistaken) that can now be done using one command:
>
> usort -s -k1,1V -k4.2,4.3n -k4.5,4.7M -k4.9,4.12n -k4.14,4.15n -k4.17,4.18n -
> k4.20,4.21
>
> I tried that on Windows 10 with this sort:
>
> C:\> sort --version
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.26
> Packaged by Cygwin (8.26-2)
> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
>
> C:\>
>
>
> Perhaps that alternative could be added to the web page?

It's a fair point. The existing example is still useful
to document the multiple sort invocation idea,
so I've added extra info about the -V simplification option at:

https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=4fd708810

thanks,
Pádraig