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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: emacs-bug-tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5804: marked as done (sort --human)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:02 +0000

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From: Phil Dumont <phil <at> solidstatescientific.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: sort --human
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:14:05 -0400 (EDT)

It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:

  du -s --human * | sort --human

phil

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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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