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From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
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* Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> Count this as a vote for ditching GNU sort in favor of a BSD-licensed
> implementation (from {Net,Open}BSD for instance).

I just looked at the OpenBSD implementation and I can see it already
misses one option that some people will miss, namely numeric sorting
(-g). I don't know anything about NetBSD's implementation or how hard it
is to add.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
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