Joshua Bronson wrote: > > What are your concerns? Adding the kitchen sink to `sort`.
Though if we were to add this functionality to coreutils, sort seems like the right place. I've often used sort | tail, but only for small data sets where the overhead is negligible. I'm leaning towards this being useful given how much faster it would be for large datasets. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils