On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:48:57AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > # cat roman | msort -q -w -l -y ROMAN > I > II > III > IV > IX > V > VI > VII > VIII > X > XI > XII
> Did I miss anything? Well, this program certainly is ... unusual. Doesn't just *work* by default. No examples in the man page. Anyway, it looks like you forgot to specify numeric comparison. wooledg:~$ printf %s\\n III IX IV V X VII VI VIII | msort -q -w -l -c N -y any III IV V VI VII VIII IX X Here's what I mean by "doesn't just work by default": wooledg:~$ printf %s\\n III IX IV V X VII VI VIII | msort -c N -y any Comparison type specified without previous key selector (-e, -n, -t, or -w). What, you don't just read lines by default? And you don't take standard sort(1)'s -k key specifier. OK, fine, here's a -w for you: wooledg:~$ printf %s\\n III IX IV V X VII VI VIII | msort -w -c N -y any Sorting on whole record. Increasing numeric string Reading from stdin. Records processed: 0 There's no point in sorting fewer than two records. 0 Lolwut? Who came up with this user interface? Do you even read standard input by default? No "standard" in the man page. No "stdin" in the man page. No examples in the man page. No default behavior that works. OK, I guess it does say "Reading from stdin" in that error output, but why didn't you say that in the manual? Jeez. I ended up googling "msort example" which was only slightly helpful.
