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It appears to be so it can sort the lines. Not sure how useful that is however.
by mongol 3y ago
It appears to be so it can sort the lines. Not sure how useful that is however.
- loeg 3y agoIt shouldn't need to buffer the output to do that, right?
- swsieber 3y agoCorrect.
- CGamesPlay 3y agoAn ironic near-miss on the UNIX philosophy. There's a great UNIX tool that will handle sorting arbitrarily large files!
- tgv 3y agoIt will mess up array indices, though.
- codetrotter 3y agoWouldn’t “sort -n” work with indices?
- tgv 3y agoIt's tricky to specify the sorting criterium: you have to indicate the column. Gron's output looks like this: a.b[0].c.d[0]: ... a.b[0].e[0].f: ...