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Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length
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Ethan Baldridge |
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Re: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length |
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Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:28:29 -0400 |
Discussion seems to have petered out a bit - is it vote time? :)
My vote doesn't count, being the contributor, but so far (not counting
me) it sounds like 1 person and 0.9 persons (2 ambivalences, one 60-40)
for and 1.1 persons against?
(being somewhat facetious - I know it's up to the maintainer, who hasn't
weighed in yet as far as I know; just trying to gauge support and make
sure it doesn't get forgotten.)
Are there any other objections?
Thanks,
Ethan
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 22:07 +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> 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
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- 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