On 19-02-2018, at 03h 23'27", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]" > * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <i.m.ciob...@upcmail.nl> [18-02/18=Su 16:55 +0100]: > > [... How can something like > > "III\nII\nI\nV\nIV\nVII\nVI\nVIII\nX\nIX" > > [be sorted? ...] > > See `aptitude show msort`; it probably does what you need.
I can't see how that would work, I have read the manual and tried almost all options. At best msort is still behaves as sort, placing IX in between IV and V: # cat roman X III II XI IV V VI VIII VII IX XII I # cat roman | msort -q -w -l -y ROMAN I II III IV IX V VI VII VIII X XI XII # cat roman | sort I II III IV IX V VI VII VIII X XI XII Did I miss anything? Besides, how this msort will work in a pipe, when I have to sort by date, things like 3-V-2017 and 17-IX-2016, I can't find the equivalent of -k from sort into this msort. What I need is something like sort -t- -k3,3n -k2,2m -k1,1n, where m would ideally be the sorting of Roman numerals (or the months as Roman numerals)... Is there a way to add this extension to sort? Like it is right now: | --sort=WORD | sort according to WORD: general-numeric -g, | human-numeric -h, month -M, numeric -n, random -R, version -V to add "roman numerals -m" and to be able to specify a file with (all) roman numerals in their proper order and ask sort to order using that 'dictionary'? I am willing to try to add this to sort if anyone can point me in the right direction... Thank you. Ionel
