[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Support bytesize comparison in sort
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Support bytesize comparison in sort |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:15:20 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Mart Somermaa <address@hidden> writes:
> Why not use an upper-case letter? We have plenty of those left.
There are a lot of different ways to sort, and we'll burn through
the letters fairly quickly. If we used a single letter, it should
probably be -h for df -h and -H for df -H, for sanity's sake.
But I'd still prefer a scheme that doesn't require a single letter.
How about something like "sort -k 3--ignore-case,--ignore-leading-blanks"?
Then you could get the effect that you want with "sort -k 3--si".