Re: [patch #2565] added option to sort: sort human readable file sizes

[Matthew Woehlke]

Hauke Brandes wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #1, patch #2565 (project coreutils):
>
> This is a really useful feature IMHO. Actually, I made a similar patch myself
> and was just checking whether it had already been done. As it is just a small
> change and no collisions with other options seem to exist, I would really
> like to see this included in a standard release. 
>
> I am using my patched version of sort quite often with this option.

Thanks for pointing that out... I just posted an RFC for adding such an 
option, but had missed/forgotten this patch. It was also requested (if 
indirectly) by a third person in the last month.

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