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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Marshall Lake <mlake <at> mlake.net>

Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Marshall Lake <mlake <at> mlake.net>
To: 36674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36674: Sort Suggestion
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:42:01 -0700 (MST)

Hi,

Even though this isn't a bug, I was asked to send the following to this 
email address.


Re:  SORT Command from GNU coreutils 8.25

A suggestion for an additional option to the SORT command is to ignore 
non-alphanumeric characters.

As an example, in attempting to sort an index ...

Abbott, William                        259

sorts before:

Abbot, William                         099

If non-alphanumeric characters were ignored then the same two records
would sort as:

Abbot, William                         099
Abbott, William                        259


Thanks for reading.


-- 
Marshall Lake -- mlake <at> mlake.net -- http://www.mlake.net
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