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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michal Svoboda <pht <at> spatium.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5804: sort --human
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:32:18 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote 1206 bytes:
> ;-)
> Perhaps he meant that it works as documented:
> 
>   `-h'
>   `--human-numeric-sort'
>   `--sort=human-numeric'
>        Sort numerically, as per the `--numeric-sort' option below, and in
>        addition handle IEC or SI suffixes like MiB, MB etc (*note Block
>        size::).  Note a mixture of IEC and SI suffixes is not supported
>        and will be flagged as an error.  Also the numbers must be
>        abbreviated uniformly.  I.E. values with different precisions like
>        6000K and 5M will be sorted incorrectly.

I see, I wasn't aware of the "Note". In that case, it is suitably
described as "this will sort whatever the other coreutils give you when
you use -h".

Michal Svoboda
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