Hi, On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:57:33PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/05/2015 01:35 PM, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND wrote: > > >> 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 > > > > 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? > > [...] > justification on why people want sorted IP addresses.
FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script. The info documentation for sort provides another example, log files sorted by IP address and time stamp. That specific example even needs two runs of sort, because sort lacks built-in support for IP addresses. While IPv4 addresses are readily sorted by "sort -s -t '.' -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n", this is not the case for IPv6 addresses. Having an option for sorting IP addresses that supports both IPv4 and IPv6 seems like a useful addition to me. Thanks, Erik [1] https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ping_scan/ -- Be water, my friend. -- Bruce Lee
