At least since Maverick (possibly earlier), sort has a "-h" option seems to do what is asked for here. Can this bug be closed as fix-released?
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313152 Title: sort support for numeric sort with suffixes -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs