RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length (original) (raw)

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From: Ethan Baldridge
Subject: RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:10:44 -0400

I should have mentioned that the patch is against coreutils 7.4 (from the Ubuntu repository, but they don't seem to have any custom patches).

From: Ethan Baldridge Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:06 PM To: 'address@hidden' Subject: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length

I had a list to sort at work today that needed to be in the format "A B C D E... AA BB CC DD" but sort(1) only returns results as "A AA B BB C CC".

So I wrote a patch to add -length-sort as an option. (-l was not taken as a short option so I added that too).

Here it is attached as a unified diff. I tested it and it seems to work naturally in conjunction with other operands, so I don't believe there are likely to be problems.

--Ethan Baldridge