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sort: add options to sort by IPv4/IPv6

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Message #32 received at 20745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>, 20745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20745: I would like to make a request for the sort command
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 08:14:20 -0600

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On 06/08/2015 05:14 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

> Maybe there's a way to allow that without having to implement
> the specifics in sort.
> 
> Like sort key flags to invoke commands:
> 
>    sort '-k1,1|ip2hex' '-k2,2n|roman2int' '-k3,3|iconv -t us//TRANSLIT'

That would result in a LOT of process overhead (one command spawned per
sort key per line).  True, it would be more generic, but the performance
would suffer compared to having a direct way to do the sorting within
the current process.  It's going to be more efficient to do a single
pre-process pass, then sort, then post-process, with a complicated
script language doing the right processing per field in a single pass,
than to do one conversion per key per row.


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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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