On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:29:27PM -0700, Sorav Bansal wrote: > I often use the 'sort' program often for sorting text files. Recently, I > had to write a binary search utility that can search for a key in a file > sorted using the 'sort' program.
Why not just use look(1)? On my GNU/Linux system here, that comes with "bsdmainutils". > Since bsearch is a common operation on sorted files, I imagine it will > be a useful utility to add to coreutils. If there is enough interest, I > would be happy to write and maintain bsearch for coreutils. The basic > program functionality is already working and tested, and it needs > support for more command-line options and documentation before it is > ready for coreutils. If there is a consensus to add this, I'd have a preference for a usage pattern which is consistent with look(1). Regards, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
