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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#6366: comm: use numeric sort (optionally) |
Date: | Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:19:04 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
severity 6366 wishlist stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 22/08/12 04:00 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 08/22/2012 09:17 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:I have a file of numbers (integers IDs) which are sorted numerically, but comm complains that they are not. I suggest that comm accept "-n" option (like sort) to use numeric sort. Thanks.Yes. comm, join, uniq really should support the same field selection and comparision flags as sort. There are already bugs for that: http://bugs.gnu.org/5832 http://bugs.gnu.org/6366
There is an on-going (though somewhat dormant) effort to consolidate the key comparison of uniq/join/sort into one common module: https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2013-02/msg00087.html https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2016-04/msg00063.html As such, I'm marking this as a wishlist item, and hopefully we'll get to it sooner or later... regards, - assaf
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