bug#33371: RFC: option for numeric sort: ignore-non-numeric characters

2018-11-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/13/18 8:32 PM, L A Walsh wrote: I have a bunch of files numbered from 1-over 2000 without leading zeros (think rfc's)... They have names with a non-numeric prefix & suffix around the number. It would be nice if sort had the option to ignore non-numeric data and only sort on the numeric dat

bug#33371: RFC: option for numeric sort: ignore-non-numeric characters

2018-11-13 Thread L A Walsh
I have a bunch of files numbered from 1-over 2000 without leading zeros (think rfc's)... They have names with a non-numeric prefix & suffix around the number. It would be nice if sort had the option to ignore non-numeric data and only sort on the numeric data in the 'lines'/'files'. Yeah, I can