Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human

From: Michal Svoboda <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:28:07 +0200

Drake Wyrm wrote 796 bytes:
> Michal Svoboda <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote 704 bytes:
> > >     ** New features
> > >       sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
> > >       while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
> > 
> > Interesting. So does it sort correctly 1 MB < 1000 KiB < 1 MiB ?
> 
> $ { echo 1MB; echo 1000KiB; echo 1MiB; } | sort -h
> sort: both SI and IEC prefixes present on units
> 
> That would be a no to the "sort" part, but perhaps a yes to the
> "correctly" part.

Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word *correctly* that
I wasn't previously aware of.

Michal Svoboda