Re: decorate - new sorting-helper program (experimental)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/04/2020 20:14, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm happy to announce the first experimental release of the "decorate"
> program.
>
> 'decorate' works in tandem with coreutils' sort(1) to allow new sorting
> methods (e.g. IP addresses, roman numerals, string lengths).
>
> This is a new program but an old idea, suggested by Pádraig here:
>    https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2015-06/msg00076.html
>
> ---
>
> The program is part of the "datamash" package, and available here:
>     https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/datamash/datamash-1.5.17-735b.tar.gz
>
> "./configure && make" should give you the "decorate" executable.
>
> The rest of this (long) email shows usage information and examples.

All I have to say is _very_ nice!
The future --header and @filter options look extremely useful also.

thanks so much for taking the time to implement this.

cheers,
Pádraig