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add "min" and "max" to coreutils?
From: |
Joshua Bronson |
Subject: |
add "min" and "max" to coreutils? |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:18:39 -0400 |
I was looking for a command line utility to get the min and max from a file
(rather than the much less efficient "sort | {head,tail} -1") and I couldn't
find one. Someone on linuxquestions.org directed me toward the Generic
Mapping Tools <http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/>, which provide a "minmax"
utility, and though it would get the job done it's not exactly what I was
looking for (not to mention I have no need for the ~60 other utilities in
the package). As the provider of "sort", would coreutils be the appropriate
package to provide "min" and "max" tools with a similar interface (e.g.
accepting "-n" and such)?
Thanks!
Josh
- add "min" and "max" to coreutils?,
Joshua Bronson <=
Re: add "min" and "max" to coreutils?, Jim Meyering, 2009/07/03