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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2020-11-18 14:00:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2020-11-18 14:00:43 +0000 |
| commit | c3a5280731ee096cb156d87eaa38c1d887490380 (patch) | |
| tree | f521b6cbbf575d3a7d032896ebe88d9753ecc2b0 | |
| parent | 2bc66c5ea7e507786a45c1b6b15fe74a338240f4 (diff) | |
doc: mention that sort -g supports hex numbers
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention explicitly
that --general-numeric-sort supports arbitrary format hex numbers,
but also mention that consistent case/width hex numbers can
be sorted faster with a standard sort.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 99f6d9fb8..5ac3745bd 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -4397,6 +4397,12 @@ Use this option only if there is no alternative; it is much slower than @option{--numeric-sort} (@option{-n}) and it can lose information when converting to floating point. +You can use this option to sort hexadecimal numbers prefixed with +@samp{0x} or @samp{0X}, where those numbers are not fixed width, +or of varying case. However for hex numbers of consistent case, +and left padded with @samp{0} to a consistent width, a standard +lexicographic sort will be faster. + @item -h @itemx --human-numeric-sort @itemx --sort=human-numeric |