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bug#5804: sort --human
From: |
Michal Svoboda |
Subject: |
bug#5804: sort --human |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:32:18 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
Jim Meyering wrote 1206 bytes:
> ;-)
> Perhaps he meant that it works as documented:
>
> `-h'
> `--human-numeric-sort'
> `--sort=human-numeric'
> Sort numerically, as per the `--numeric-sort' option below, and in
> addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (*note Block
> size::). Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported
> and will be flagged as an error. Also the numbers must be
> abbreviated uniformly. I.E. values with different precisions like
> 6000K and 5M will be sorted incorrectly.
I see, I wasn't aware of the "Note". In that case, it is suitably
described as "this will sort whatever the other coreutils give you when
you use -h".
Michal Svoboda