On 26/10/15 04:31, Annihilannic wrote: > 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.
This is a marginal one already discussed at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-01/msg00027.html Summary is you can do this with GNU sed: ( echo 99 ; seq 10 ) | ( sed -u 1q ; sort -n ) thanks, Pádraig
