Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>From 75bb07bb620d37d26467ab86ffcf73d47479b358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michael Speer <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:51:29 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] sort: new --human-numeric-sort option to sort KiB MB etc.
>
> * NEWS: Document the new option
> * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto
> * src/sort.c (main): handle the new -human-numeric-sort option (-h).
Please make one small change to that log message:
s/ -human/ --human/
And in the documentation,
+Sort numerically, as per the @option{--numeric-sort} option,
+and in addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc.
+Note a mixture of these suffixes is not supported and will
+be flagged as an error. Also the numbers must be abbreviated unambiguously.
+I.E. 5000K and 6M will be sorted incorrectly for example.
Eventually, it'd be nice to explain in detail why those
would cause trouble.
Maybe s/unambiguously/consistently/
or /uniformly/
and mention that it's the inconsistent precision that causes trouble.
Hmm.... actually those two *are* sorted properly for me:
$ printf '%s\n' 5000K 6M| src/sort --human
5000K
6M
However, these two are not:
$ printf '%s\n' 7000K 6M| src/sort --human
7000K
6M
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