Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Karl Berry
I'm also wondering whether the GNU system should recommend using zstd instead of or in addition to xz for compression purposes. I'm not sure GNU explicitly recommends anything. Although the tarball examples in standards.texi and maintain.texi all use gz, I don't think even gz is explicitly

-k -1 for last field?

2022-05-30 Thread Karl Berry
How about supporting negative POS values for -k to count from the last field? Useful when there are a varying number of fields. Crazy? E.g., two-line file x/y/z a/b desired to sort on last field via: sort -t/ -k -1,-1 Clearly there are ways to achieve the goal, e.g., extract and duplicate