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by codetrotter 930 days ago
Why?
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mongol 930 days ago
It appears to be so it can sort the lines. Not sure how useful that is however.
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CGamesPlay 930 days ago
An ironic near-miss on the UNIX philosophy. There's a great UNIX tool that will handle sorting arbitrarily large files!
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tgv 930 days ago
It will mess up array indices, though.
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codetrotter 930 days ago
Wouldn’t “sort -n” work with indices?
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tgv 930 days ago
It's tricky to specify the sorting criterium: you have to indicate the column. Gron's output looks like this:

a.b[0].c.d[0]: ... a.b[0].e[0].f: ...

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loeg 930 days ago
It shouldn't need to buffer the output to do that, right?
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swsieber 930 days ago
Correct.
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