On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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.
/usr/gnu/bin/sort has both options.
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