bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/06/15 10:51, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2015-06-08 11:16:37 +0200, Erik Auerswald: > [...] >> FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script. >> >> The info documentation for sort provides another example, log files >> sorted by IP address and time stamp. That specific exa

bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation

2015-06-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Actually it would be great if one could just do seq -f %d=0x%x 14484 1 34484 where seq could just take the standard printf arguments, and % could be used more than once, as I don't think it could mean any second argument...

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 08:14:20 -0600, Eric Blake: > On 06/08/2015 05:14 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > > > Maybe there's a way to allow that without having to implement > > the specifics in sort. > > > > Like sort key flags to invoke commands: > > > >sort '-k1,1|ip2hex' '-k2,2n|roman2int' '-k3,3|iconv

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/08/2015 05:14 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > Maybe there's a way to allow that without having to implement > the specifics in sort. > > Like sort key flags to invoke commands: > >sort '-k1,1|ip2hex' '-k2,2n|roman2int' '-k3,3|iconv -t us//TRANSLIT' That would result in a LOT of process

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 11:16:37 +0200, Erik Auerswald: [...] > FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script. > > The info documentation for sort provides another example, log files > sorted by IP address and time stamp. That specific example even needs > two runs of sort, because sort la

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 12:43:32 +0200, Erik Auerswald: [...] > > I'm not even sure having a tool just for that specific task > > would make sense though. Here, it sounds more like a job for a > > high level language like perl/python... (what if I want to sort > > on roman numerals now, week day names, astrolog

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:51:59AM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2015-06-08 11:16:37 +0200, Erik Auerswald: > [...] > > FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script. > > > > The info documentation for sort provides another example, log files > > sorted by IP address

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 11:16:37 +0200, Erik Auerswald: [...] > FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script. > > The info documentation for sort provides another example, log files > sorted by IP address and time stamp. That specific example even needs > two runs of sort, because sort la

bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command

2015-06-08 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:57:33PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/05/2015 01:35 PM, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND wrote: > > >> This was previously discussed, and while has merit > >> at the time it was thought not important enough to add: > >> > >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/reject

bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 07:28:25 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson: > On (info "(coreutils) seq invocation") perhaps mention if one needs to > use two % items, a for loop might be required, > > $ for i in `seq 14484 1 34484`; do printf %d=0x%x\\n $i $i; done > 14484=0x3894 > 24484=0x5fa4 > 34484=0x86b4 [...] Runnin