Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are asking for a program that randomly permutes its input. Then > let's design another program to do that, and not get bogged down > with how its features work together with "sort"'s existing zoo of > options.
That might be the best thing: create a new randomizer command, and then see how much the requests for "sort -R" drop off. There are probably some people who want the TODO's sort -R, and some who want a randomizer, but they may not make it clear which one they want. Even sort -R could then be scripted as sort | randomizer, in cases where the user doesn't care about keeping ties clustered. > By [**] I meant that if you sort two permutations of the same input > file, and use the same random seed for both sorts, you'll get the > same output. This is roughly the same as [*], then. Ah, that makes sense. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
