According to Georg Müller on 4/24/2007 6:22 AM:
Dear coreutils team,
I would like to see a sort by line length in the sort tool.
Is anything like this planned.
Not really planned, but it doesn't sound all that bad to me. Submit a
patch for discussion, if you would like. But it sounds
Georg Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to see a sort by line length in the sort tool.
Is anything like this planned.
It seems easy to implement.
I could also write the code for that, if you wish.
You can do this in perl (or awk, ruby, etc) as a one-liner,
so it may not be worth
Georg Müller wrote:
Dear coreutils team,
I would like to see a sort by line length in the sort tool.
Is anything like this planned.
It seems easy to implement.
I could also write the code for that, if you wish.
That seems like a very specific need which
is probably best fulfilled with a
Jim Meyering wrote:
You can do this in perl (or awk, ruby, etc) as a one-liner,
so it may not be worth adding to a C application:
echo 1 938 four aa a | fmt -1 \
| perl -ne 'push @line, $_;sub END{print sort {length $a=length $b}
@line}'
1
aa
938
four
a
Not to derail on
Georg Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to see a sort by line length in the sort tool.
awk '{ print length(), $0 }' input | sort -k1,1n | cut -d' ' -f2- output
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg,
I know that I can solve this by these combinations, but having a -l
flag for sort would be much shorter to write and I am not so familiar
with perl.
It was just an idea to make things easier, if you don't like it, ignore it.
I need it atm for bug fixing other stuff, but searched for that a time
