Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:37:24 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available Message-ID: <4462e46ul7.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83_r3SgYj6apifN6NTCwZ-ApYbLkyMOS5zcCmTFst_Vcow@mail.gmail.com> (Chris Rees's message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:50:29 %2B0000") References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <CADLo83_r3SgYj6apifN6NTCwZ-ApYbLkyMOS5zcCmTFst_Vcow@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> writes:
> On 15 March 2012 19:18, Lowell Gilbert
> <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>> Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>
>>> some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since
>>> the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to
>>> modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg
>>> Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> showed interest in continuing
>>> this version and he has made a very good job on this BSD sort
>>> variant. Now it is compatible with the base version of GNU sort but
>>> the performance in most cases (string sort and -n) is quite behind GNU
>>> sort (although with -g it is about *4 times* faster). Oleg is still
>>> working on optimizing the code and the long-term plan is to drop GNU
>>> sort once this variant is good enough to replace it. For now, it is
>>> only available in Ports Collection as textproc/bsdsort but if there is
>>> no objection or any serious bug report I plan to add it to base
>>> installed as bsdsort, being GNU sort still the default sort until it
>>> proves that we can safely drop GNU sort. If you are interested in this
>>> sort utility, could you please try the port and report us any issue
>>> that you experience?
>>
>> portsdb(1) (from portupgrade) doesn't seem to like it;
>> apparently it is missing a '-2' option, which I haven't
>> tracked down yet...
>
> Fails with gnusort too anyway:
>
> [crees@pegasus]~% gsort -2
> gsort: invalid option -- '2'
> Try `gsort --help' for more information.
> [crees@pegasus]~%
As it turns out, this *is* something that Gnu sort supports, although
the documentation claims that the syntax is obsolete -- and doesn't
document it very well.
[5022] (lowell-desk) ~> printf "fee\nfie\nfoe\nfum\nfoo\nbaz" |gsort -t 'a' +1 -2
fee
fie
foe
foo
fum
baz
[5022] (lowell-desk) ~>
It wouldn't be bad if BSD sort supported it, but it should definitely be
fixed in the ports Makefile. I have submitted the fix in a PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=166188
Personally, I'd don't see any reason for bsdsort to include this
functionality...
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