Martin Sarfy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> attached there is a patch against coreutils-6.10/sort.c implementing
> "Natural order sorting" (e.g. "A1" < "A2" < "A10"), using "-N" parameter.
>
> Please, consider it's inclusion in upstream :-)
>
> Signing papers with copyright is not a problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Sarfy
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Eggert <[email protected]> -----
>
> To: Martin Sarfy <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order
> From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:10:04 -0700
>
> Could you please send this directly to [email protected]?
> Also, assuming it meets favor there, will you and your employer be willing
> to sign papers assigning copyright to the FSF?
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
Thanks very much for that. However I think this option
added in release 7.0 covers this functionality?
-V, --version-sort
natural sort of (version) numbers within text
Could you check if your patch handles cases that -V doesn't?
cheers,
Pádraig.
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