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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>2008-02-20 08:36:56 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-02-20 08:41:29 +0100
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downloadcoreutils-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.
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@@ -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