sort(1) memory usage

[Ed Schouten]

* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at 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.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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