I should have mentioned that the patch is against coreutils 7.4 (from the Ubuntu repository, but they don't seem to have any custom patches).
From: Ethan Baldridge Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:06 PM To: 'bug-coreutils@gnu.org' Subject: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length I had a list to sort at work today that needed to be in the format "A B C D E... AA BB CC DD" but sort(1) only returns results as "A AA B BB C CC". So I wrote a patch to add -length-sort as an option. (-l was not taken as a short option so I added that too). Here it is attached as a unified diff. I tested it and it seems to work naturally in conjunction with other operands, so I don't believe there are likely to be problems. --Ethan Baldridge _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
