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Re: but what if the items they wanted to sort were all on one line?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: but what if the items they wanted to sort were all on one line? |
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23 Feb 2002 10:11:55 +0100 |
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jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:
> Of all the sorting commands listed in Info: sort-lines, etc. the
> likelihood is big one day that a user will come with a line to sort like
> 2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38.
> I mean you have several functions ready for users with data in one
> item per line formats, but none to sort many items on the same
> line---an indeed common thing one might want to do. Perhaps one at
> least could add one solution to the Docs, e.g.
>
> $ echo 2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38|tr \ \\n|sort -n|tr \\n \
> 2 7 8 12 15 21 23 29 30 36 38 0
Fill the region with a line width of 1 character, sort, then fill the
region with a line width of point-max.
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