On 30/11/15 19:30, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 13:27, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
>> BTW this list has gone viral...
>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3uogjv/gnu_coreutils_gotchas/
>
> Glossing over the reddit discussion, there's a thread about "sort -R"
> not being always perfect randomness,
> pointing to this Debian bugreport/discussion:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641166
>
>
> Perhaps that could be added as another gothca?
Done.
BTW, the man page description is a bit terse/implementation specific.
How about we change:
-R, --random-sort
sort by random hash of keys
to:
-R, --random-sort
randomize input, but also group matching keys
cheers,
Pádraig
