Hi,
I find that I frequently need to sort the tabular output of a command
that includes heading lines, so often that I've written my own wrapper
'sorthead <n> <sort options>'. In other words, preserve the position of
the specified number of lines of input data.
I think this would be a generally useful feature to add to the sort
command, with a syntax similar to --skip-header-lines=N. Has it been
considered and discarded before? A cursory search of this mailing list
did not turn up any prior discussions.
Handling trailing lines in a similar way could also be useful.
Regards,
Scott
