Re: Suggestion

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/26/2015 09:20 PM, toocute tobeforreal wrote: > I remember reading about micropolis being released for Linux. I had it on > another distro but I haven't been able to find it since I upgraded to > Fedora22. I would like it added to dnf. Thanks. You've reached the GNU coreutils list, which ma

Re: Feature suggestion: sort --skip-header-lines=N (and perhaps --skip-trailer-lines?)

2015-10-26 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-10-26 11:40:54 +, Pádraig Brady: [...] > Summary is you can do this with GNU sed: > > ( echo 99 ; seq 10 ) | ( sed -u 1q ; sort -n ) [...] Or POSIXly: awk 'NR <= 3 {print; next}; {print | "sort -n"}' Or: (IFS= read -r line && printf '%s\n' "$line"; sort -n) On systems that still have

Re: Feature suggestion: sort --skip-header-lines=N (and perhaps --skip-trailer-lines?)

2015-10-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 26/10/15 04:31, Annihilannic wrote: > Hi, > > I find that I frequently need to sort the tabular output of a command > that includes heading lines, so often that I've written my own wrapper > 'sorthead '. In other words, preserve the position of > the specified number of lines of input data

Feature suggestion: sort --skip-header-lines=N (and perhaps --skip-trailer-lines?)

2015-10-26 Thread Annihilannic
Hi, I find that I frequently need to sort the tabular output of a command that includes heading lines, so often that I've written my own wrapper 'sorthead '. In other words, preserve the position of the specified number of lines of input data. I think this would be a generally useful featu