Re: [PATCH] sort -V now ignores leading white spaces

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/03/10 13:40, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> please consider the attached patch, improving sort -V to ignore leading white
> spaces.  The patch makes it possible to sort strings mixed with numbers.  A
> simple test case has been merged directly into tests/misc/sort-version.

Is this common? What's the use case exactly?

What about real file names that begin with spaces.
Unlikely I know but still..

Also if your input is like this can one
just specify the -b flag globally or for the key?

cheers,
Pádraig.