On 13/08/2023 15:40, Renaud Pacalet wrote:
I am a bit surprised that it has never been suggested before but I could
not find any trace of it, so here it is:
Would it be possible to specify the sorting keys from the end of the
record, instead of the beginning. Something like sort -k-1,-1 to sort on
the last field of each record, sort -k-2,-2 for the second to last...
This would be handy when the format has a variable number of fields per
record but the last records are well defined.
I vaguely remember this being suggested before ...
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00008.html
The interface and functionality does make sense.
The only question I have is if it is functionality that is needed often enough.
cheers,
Pádraig
