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bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed
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Assaf Gordon |
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bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed |
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Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:44:42 -0500 |
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Hello Federico,
On 11/29/2015 04:33 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
I suggest that we add a new flag to Sort, to skip certain number of lines from
the sorting and copy them verbatim to the output,
This feature has been previously discussed, and the current thought is not to
add this functionality to sort,
as a combination of head/sed with sort are already sufficient to perform the
task.
Please see discussion at the current list of pendong Coreutils items:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_dec_2014.html
previous discussion here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-11/msg00022.html
and various examples of how to achieve the same using sed/head:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-01/msg00034.html
regards,
- assaf