On 29/11/15 22:44, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> tag 22057 notabug
> close 22057
> stop
> 
> Hello Federico,
> 
> On 11/29/2015 04:33 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
>> I suggest that we add a new flag to Sort, to skip certain number of lines 
>> from the sorting and copy them verbatim to the output,
>>
> 
> This feature has been previously discussed, and the current thought is not to 
> add this functionality to sort,
> as a combination of head/sed with sort are already sufficient to perform the 
> task.
> 
> Please see discussion at the current list of pendong Coreutils items:
>    http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_dec_2014.html

BTW upon publishing each of those summaries, this page is updated:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#sort

cheers,
Pádraig



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