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Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

Started byEli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
First post2019-12-24 00:47 -0500
Last post2019-12-24 09:00 +0000
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  Re: Unicode range and enumeration support. Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> - 2019-12-24 00:47 -0500
    Re: Unicode range and enumeration support. arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2019-12-24 09:00 +0000

#15774 — Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

FromEli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Date2019-12-24 00:47 -0500
SubjectRe: Unicode range and enumeration support.
Message-ID<mailman.1351.1577166478.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org>

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On 12/24/19 12:34 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> I'm not sure what you want me to say about the range you chose,
> other than it would be about 128,000 characters. It would be about the
> same argument, for or against in using
> {241..128169}.  I know you are trying to make some point, but
> I'm missing it.

Yes, quite clearly you are missing lots. Though I cannot help but feel
the problem is when people try to explain it, you ignore the explanations.

>>>    It is in unicode code point order.  Which is what you would use
>>> for unicode.  If you want to sort via unicode, use the -u switch.
>>>     
>>
>> That isn't what the sort -u option does, and you know it.  I hope.
>>   
> Yeah...though, _I don't remember it_, _if_ I'm not entering it in
> a command to use it. I.e just as I'm about to type "|uniq", I
> remember that I'll remember that '-u' is a recently added 'shortcut'
> to get the same output.

What is "recent" about sort -u? I can find it listed as a mandatory
option in the POSIX 2004 manual.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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Fromarnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Date2019-12-24 09:00 +0000
Message-ID<qtsk2t$o1v$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#15774
In article <mailman.1351.1577166478.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org>,
Eli Schwartz  <eschwartz@archlinux.org> wrote:
>What is "recent" about sort -u? I can find it listed as a mandatory
>option in the POSIX 2004 manual.

It goes back at least as far as V7 Unix (1979), and I think
much further.
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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