Georg Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to see a "sort by line length" in the sort tool.
>
> Is anything like this planned.
> It seems easy to implement.
> I could also write the code for that, if you wish.
You can do this in perl (or awk, ruby, etc) as a one-liner,
so it may not be worth adding to a C application:
echo 1 938 four aa aaaaa | fmt -1 \
| perl -ne 'push @line, $_;sub END{print sort {length $a<=>length $b} @line}'
1
aa
938
four
aaaaa
Is that good enough for you?
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