"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The number of inputs that can be handled by the sort utility is > currently limited by what may be passed in argv. > > Due to the nature of sort, this limit can't be stepped around with > `xargs' as it could be with some other utilities. > > My solution to this locally has been to add an option to the sort > utility, --xargs, which causes sort to treat STDIN as a source of > newline-separated arguments that supplement those on the command-line > (please see attached patch).
I suppose you have a real application where this is useful? If so, please describe it -- motivation/justification helps ;-) > Is this an option that might be worth including in a future release? I think so. du and wc each have the --files0-from=F option, added for the same reason. Any such option in sort should have the same name and be implemented in the same way. [haven't forgotten about --nmerge. will get to it eventually ] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
