I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options:
-C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference between /usr/bin/sort and /usr/xpg4/bin/sort. -h (as a comparison type, thus also usages like -k1h): from recent GNU sort, to compare human-readable numeric values with or without a suffix like K M G etc. (Thus solving the problem of how to sort the output of e.g. du -hs * ) The first of those looks quite easy; the second would require a well-defined format and comparison for human-readable numeric values to be researched and specified, before writing the comparison code. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
