Subject: bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:54:13 +0000

On 29/11/15 22:44, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> tag 22057 notabug
> close 22057
> stop
> 
> Hello Federico,
> 
> On 11/29/2015 04:33 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
>> I suggest that we add a new flag to Sort, to skip certain number of lines from the sorting and copy them verbatim to the output,
>>
> 
> This feature has been previously discussed, and the current thought is not to add this functionality to sort,
> as a combination of head/sed with sort are already sufficient to perform the task.
> 
> Please see discussion at the current list of pendong Coreutils items:
>    http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_dec_2014.html

BTW upon publishing each of those summaries, this page is updated:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#sort

cheers,
Pádraig