GNU bug report logs - #40633
Document / implement sorting via absolute value

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 01:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 40633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40633: Document / implement sorting via absolute value
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 05:41:18 +0800

(info "(coreutils) sort invocation")
should mention how to sort via absolute value,
or add an option to do it.
Currently one must use e.g.,
$ seq -2 2|perl -pe 's/^(-)(.*)/$2$1/;' | sort -n
0
1
1-
2
2-
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