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
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