GNU bug report logs - #20936
sort: add summary line option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 07:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: 20936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20936: suggestion for a 'wart-ish' extension off of 'sort'
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:08:39 +0100

2015-06-30 12:51:02 +0200, Erik Auerswald:
[...]
> > But more a more obvious problem is 'du -shc' seems to be coming up with
> > the wrong number -- i.e. 1.5+3.6 = 5.1, not 5.0.
> 
> That are probably rounding errors avoided by du, that hsort cannot avoid
> anymore.
[...]

Also, du -c gives you the cumulative usage (think of hard
links that need to be counted once), not the sum of the above.

-- 
Stephane
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