RE: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length

[Ethan Baldridge]

I should have mentioned that the patch is against coreutils 7.4 (from
the Ubuntu repository, but they don't seem to have any custom patches).

 

From: Ethan Baldridge 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:06 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: New sort(1) feature -- sort by length

 

I had a list to sort at work today that needed to be in the format "A B
C D E... AA BB CC DD" but sort(1) only returns results as "A AA B BB C
CC".

 

So I wrote a patch to add -length-sort as an option. (-l was not taken
as a short option so I added that too).

 

Here it is attached as a unified diff. I tested it and it seems to work
naturally in conjunction with other operands, so I don't believe there
are likely to be problems.

 

--Ethan Baldridge