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shsort
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a recursive quicksort in pure posix shell script using any arbitrary function
or command capable of parsing a comparison expression and outputing "yes" or
"no." (e.g., anything that takes a string in the form of "1 > 3" as a command
line argument and echoes "no" and takes "1 < 3" and echoes "yes".)
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usage: shsort [-r] <comparator command> [<list>]
shsort expects a newline delimited list of elements to sort. the list may be
passed via stdin in or on the command line as the <list> argument.
the comparator command is used as-is and may be a string including flags.
for example:
$ printf "2.9\n1.2\n3.4\n2.1\n2.1-rc0\n2.12" | shsort "vercmp -f default"
3.4
2.12
2.9
2.1
2.1-rc0
1.2
`-r` reverses the sort order:
$ printf "2.9\n1.2\n3.4\n2.1\n2.1-rc0\n2.12" | shsort -r "vercmp -f default"
1.2
2.1-rc0
2.1
2.9
2.12
3.4