GNU Core Utilities - Bugs: bug #12651, sort Feature request: random order
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bug #12651: sort Feature request: random order
Submitter: | None | ||
Submitted: | Mon 11 Apr 2005 11:02:56 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Fixed |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | None |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Tue 14 Feb 2006 10:30:25 PM UTC, comment #1: |
Jim Meyering <meyering> |
Mon 11 Apr 2005 11:02:56 PM UTC, original submission:
I am constatntly seeking a way to randomize a list of text strings, sort seems intuitave to me. Please consider adding say a flag for returning strings in a random order. |
Anonymous |
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2006-08-26 | meyering | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2006-02-14 | meyering | Status | None | Fixed |
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Corresponding source code
This has been added for upcoming coreutils-6.0:
From sort --help:
-R, --random-sort sort by random hash of keys