Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:28:08PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > Those take no floating point input that I can see.   For sort,
> > its only use of floats would be sorting files containing them,
> > for which (I assume) one would want and expect the file
> > to be a locale specific format, and for sort to recognise
> > the floats in a locale specific way.
> 
> This is where I disagree. In my opinion (of a native user of ",") -
> parsing locale specific input for such programs doesn't make sense.

As another user of such a locale: I disagree, it makes perfect sense
to get properly numerically sorted output from sort if I specify 
the correct locale. I do a lot of financial stuff in sh, awk and
various other base system commands and sometimes input data comes from
external sources.

Martin