On 05/06/15 18:13, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND wrote: > People, > > I realize that the sort command must be on the order of 40 years old and is > “mature” software, but I would like to make a request for enhancement anyway. > I would like the capability of adding 2 data types that can be sorted: IPv4 > addresses and IPv6 addresses. To do that, the addresses should be converted > to integers of length 32 bits and 128 bits and then sorted. I’m not sure that > 128 bit integers is portable, but converting to a 32 bit string with no > missing zeros would suffice. > > > If this is something that interests you, then I think I could write a > preprocessor in python as a proof of concept.
This was previously discussed, and while has merit at the time it was thought not important enough to add: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-06/msg00082.html thanks, Pádraig.
