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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:13:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 5804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
Cc: 5804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:04:06 -0600

Phil Dumont wrote:
> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
>   du -s --human * | sort --human

Ask and you shall receive.  Seek and ye shall find!  (Or in this case
if you had searched you would have found it. :-)

Sort has had that option since coreutils release 7.5.  Here is the
release announcement.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00201.html

    * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable]
    ** New features
      sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
      while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.

Meanwhile, coreutils release 8.4 (2010-01-13) is current and stable.

Bob
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