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| author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2008-02-20 08:36:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-02-20 08:41:29 +0100 |
| commit | cb3147d29860195780f745faf42e2b8a02bdcbf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4fe7240b19d7d861907ae2f5713361c3aea8034a /NEWS | |
| parent | c78039b87de6c636a167d3206081cced54af08e2 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-cb3147d29860195780f745faf42e2b8a02bdcbf5.tar.xz | |
sort: add --sort=... option.
* src/sort.c (SORT_OPTION): New enum.
(sort_args, sort_types): Define.
(usage, long_options, main): New option --sort.
* tests/sort/Test.pm: Test it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document --sort option.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- join now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order. This check can be turned off with the --nocheck-order option. + sort accepts the new option --sort=WORD, where WORD can be one of + general-numeric, month, numeric or random. These are equivalent to the + options --general-numeric-sort/-g, --month-sort/-M, --numeric-sort/-n + and --random-sort/-R, resp. + ** Improvements ls --color no longer outputs unnecessary escape sequences |