Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:54:18PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Ethan Baldridge wrote: > > > > I'd argue on terms of obviousness: "I'm trying to sort these differently... > > I should look at the options for sort!" > > Well lots of things boil down to sorting so I think we've to be especially > careful with adding things to `sort`. While your suggestion is useful > and is simple to implement I'm worried that it's not needed often enough > to allocate a sort option for it. Also it's easy enough to achieve with > a little sed & awk around the sort even for the single field case.
IMHO the "little awk & sed" needed clearly shows the superiority of a sort option to use the already existing key length for sorting. Erik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
