GNU bug report logs - #5804
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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>

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From: Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org>
To: 5804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:42:06 +0200

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 ?
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