severity 6366 wishlist
stop
(triaging old bugs)
Hello,
On 22/08/12 04:00 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 08/22/2012 09:17 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
I have a file of numbers (integers IDs) which are sorted numerically,
but comm complains that they are not.
I suggest that comm accept "-n" option (like sort) to use numeric sort.
Thanks.
Yes.
comm, join, uniq really should support the same field selection
and comparision flags as sort.
There are already bugs for that:
http://bugs.gnu.org/5832
http://bugs.gnu.org/6366
There is an on-going (though somewhat dormant) effort to
consolidate the key comparison of uniq/join/sort into one common
module:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2013-02/msg00087.html
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2016-04/msg00063.html
As such, I'm marking this as a wishlist item, and hopefully we'll get
to it sooner or later...
regards,
- assaf
