On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:18 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >> I don't know if anybody has seen a market/need for an interactive sort >> program, but there's nothing preventing you from writing one. > > > For sort, there is no real need. You use a text editor to create your data. > Then use existing file-based sort.
How about this: you run "du -sb *" to get directory sizes, and then after the info's on screen, you want to show the five largest. You could rerun the command, piped into "sort -n", or you could grab the existing text from your console and sort it. Do you have to switch across to a text editor, save the output there, and then sort it? Or do you invoke "sort -n" with no other args, paste straight from terminal back into the same terminal, hit Ctrl-D, and then read the output? I have done this exact thing multiple times. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
