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bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command
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Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND |
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bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command |
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Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:35:30 +0000 |
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On 6/5/15, 10:58 AM, "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 05/06/15 18:13, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I realize that the sort command must be on the order of 40 years old
>>and is ³mature² software, but I would like to make a request for
>>enhancement anyway. I would like the capability of adding 2 data types
>>that can be sorted: IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses. To do that, the
>>addresses should be converted to integers of length 32 bits and 128 bits
>>and then sorted. I¹m not sure that 128 bit integers is portable, but
>>converting to a 32 bit string with no missing zeros would suffice.
>>
>>
>> If this is something that interests you, then I think I could write a
>>preprocessor in python as a proof of concept.
>
>This was previously discussed, and while has merit
>at the time it was thought not important enough to add:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-06/msg00082.html
>
>thanks,
>Pádraig.
Pádraig,
I would like to join the debate. Would you entertain that, or is the
issue settled.
If I wrote the code, would you include it?
Jeff
>
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND, 2015/06/05
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Pádraig Brady, 2015/06/05
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command,
Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND <=
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Eric Blake, 2015/06/05
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Erik Auerswald, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Stephane Chazelas, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Erik Auerswald, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Stephane Chazelas, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Eric Blake, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Stephane Chazelas, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Pádraig Brady, 2015/06/08
- bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command, Stephane Chazelas, 2015/06/08