Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a preliminary patch for basic shuffling functionality in > 'sort', with same-keys-sort-together behavior. It adds two options: > "-R" to compare based on a hash of key, and "--seed" to specify salt > for the hash. If "--seed" is not given then the default is to read > from /dev/random or /dev/urandom. > > I still need to add support to configure.ac for some of the random > device macros.
Thanks. I haven't had time to give it serious consideration yet, but we should get started on the copyright-related paperwork. I'll send you the form separately. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils