As I wrote you privately last month, the coreutils maintainers (who are
not me) are pretty busy. The proposed change in bug#47883 would be
incompatible with longstanding tradition and would almost certainly
break some existing scripts running on GNU/Linux. This is not something
to do lightly.
On 4/18/21 10:46 AM, Peter van Dijk wrote:
While the manual (but not the manpage) mentions the data loss, I think it would
be great if sort did not have this problem at all, and I think the OpenGroup
text also says it should not have this problem.
I don't know of any 'sort' implementation tha
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html: -o output
Specify the name of an output file to be used instead of the standard
output. This file can be the same as one of the input files.
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sort-invocation.html:
"d
