** Description changed: - Please add an option, let say -N, which would modify numerical sorting - by accepting (and correctly sorting) size units (k,kB,kiB,M,...,G,...) - even when separated by space (common, non-breakable, thin, ..., - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character). + Please add more white space symbols between number and unit in sort -h. + See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character for Unicode + (utf-8) encoding in locale. + + For example + echo -e "1 Gb\n1 MB" |sort -h + should return + 1 MB + 1 Gb + where between '1' and 'MB' is Unicode's U+202F narrow no-break space (HTML:  ).
** Summary changed: - sort by size + sort by size (-h) add whitespace between number and unit ** Tags added: whitespace -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377899 Title: sort by size (-h) add whitespace between number and unit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1377899/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
