Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jim Meyering wrote:

> > I had to use "seq -f %.0f" to get this filesize.
>
> Odd.
> Here's what those generate for me:
>
>  $ seq 9999999 > k
>  $ wc -c < k
>  78888888
>
>  $ tail -1 k
>  9999999
>
> What happens differently for you?

$ seq 9999990 9999999
9.99999e+06
9.99999e+06
9.99999e+06
9.99999e+06
9.99999e+06
1e+07
1e+07
1e+07
1e+07
1e+07
address@hidden:~$ seq --version
seq (GNU coreutils) 5.93

I'm using an old version of seq with a different default format (I 
didn't realised it had changed recently.)


Cheers,
Phil