[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5804: marked as done (sort --human)

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has caused the GNU bug report #5804,
regarding sort --human
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> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:14:05 -0400 (EDT)
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> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
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>   du -s --human * | sort --human
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> phil
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> Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
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> Phil Dumont wrote:
> > It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
> >   du -s --human * | sort --human
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> Ask and you shall receive.  Seek and ye shall find!  (Or in this case
> if you had searched you would have found it. :-)
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> Sort has had that option since coreutils release 7.5.  Here is the
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>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00201.html
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>     * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable]
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>       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
>       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
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> Meanwhile, coreutils release 8.4 (2010-01-13) is current and stable.
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> Bob
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