Georg Müller wrote: > Dear coreutils team, > > 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.
That seems like a very specific need which is probably best fulfilled with a combination of tools? Have you an example of why you need this? If I was doing it, I would use my funcpy tool¹ as follows, to transform the data into the appropriate format: funcpy '"%d\t%s" % (len(x),x)' | sort -k1,1n | cut -f2- thanks, Pádraig. ¹http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
