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Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length
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Erik Auerswald |
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Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length |
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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:07:03 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:54:18PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Ethan Baldridge wrote:
> >
> > I'd argue on terms of obviousness: "I'm trying to sort these differently...
> > I should look at the options for sort!"
>
> Well lots of things boil down to sorting so I think we've to be especially
> careful with adding things to `sort`. While your suggestion is useful
> and is simple to implement I'm worried that it's not needed often enough
> to allocate a sort option for it. Also it's easy enough to achieve with
> a little sed & awk around the sort even for the single field case.
IMHO the "little awk & sed" needed clearly shows the superiority of a
sort option to use the already existing key length for sorting.
Erik
- RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Ethan Baldridge, 2009/07/16
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Jim Meyering, 2009/07/24
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Pádraig Brady, 2009/07/24
- Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length, Ethan Baldridge, 2009/07/24
- [PATCH] doc: add a sort by line length example to sort info, Pádraig Brady, 2009/07/24
- Re: [PATCH] doc: add a sort by line length example to sort info, Jim Meyering, 2009/07/25