>From c3a5280731ee096cb156d87eaa38c1d887490380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:00:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention that sort -g supports hex numbers * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention explicitly that --general-numeric-sort supports arbitrary format hex numbers, but also mention that consistent case/width hex numbers can be sorted faster with a standard sort. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 99f6d9fb8..5ac3745bd 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4397,6 +4397,12 @@ Use this option only if there is no alternative; it is much slower than @option{--numeric-sort} (@option{-n}) and it can lose information when converting to floating point. +You can use this option to sort hexadecimal numbers prefixed with +@samp{0x} or @samp{0X}, where those numbers are not fixed width, +or of varying case. However for hex numbers of consistent case, +and left padded with @samp{0} to a consistent width, a standard +lexicographic sort will be faster. + @item -h @itemx --human-numeric-sort @itemx --sort=human-numeric -- 2.26.2