Paul Eggert wrote:
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Since it seems we've mostly shot down the -N idea in favor of explicit
options
Not at all. I'd rather not chew up a lot of option letters for this
problem, as we're running short of option letters. So having an -N
option (with subletters) is preferable. We just need a way to combine
this with -k. Perhaps something like '-k3Nv,r', which would act like
-Nv -r -k3 except that the -Nv and -r options are attached only to the
-k option? Or even (more generally) '-k3--numeric,--reverse'?
Ok, I can do that too. :-) In which case, however, I would definitely
make an alias for the existing -g. But yeah, supporting
'-k<fieldspec>N<opt-letters>[,<option>...]' seems to be 'The Right Thing
to Do'.
Hmm, I really want '-r' now... I just realized it would solve sorting
(mainly for 'sort | uniq') error messages from build logs, i.e. things like:
foo.c:5 warning blah blah
foo.c:12 warning blah blah
bar.c:201 error blah blah
...which is something I do all the time. :-)
(Although really 'uniq' that doesn't need consecutive lines would be
more "correct", but...)
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