On 6/5/15, 10:58 AM, "Pádraig Brady" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 ³mature² 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. I¹m 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. Pádraig, I would like to join the debate. Would you entertain that, or is the issue settled. If I wrote the code, would you include it? Jeff >
