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Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command |
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Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:18:41 -0700 |
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According to Antonio Jara on 2/14/2006 11:06 AM:
> i'm not (yet) a developer. I'd like to be able to implementate this
> idea, but I've looked into sort.c and I felt completely lost. It would
> be nice that sort had an option to sort randomly the input, to do, for
> example, things like
> $ mplayer `ls music/* | sort --random`
> from console.
This already exists in CVS head (will become coreutils 6.0):
$ sort --version | head -n 1
sort (GNU coreutils) 6.0-cvs
$ sort --help | grep random
-R, --random-sort sort by random hash of keys
--seed=STRING seed random hash function with STRING
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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