add "min" and "max" to coreutils? (original) (raw)

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From: Joshua Bronson
Subject: add "min" and "max" to coreutils?
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18šŸ”ž39 -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