csort help documentation wrong?

larrypl

I think `N=/regex/ `should be `N=/string/`?

aspiers

Wow, I'd totally forgotten I ever wrote this. Amazingly it was exactly 10 years ago today! Thanks for the report; looking at the code, I think it should actually be `N=string`. I'll fix.

larrypl

Thanks for the update! And the anniversary for csort!

aspiers

You're welcome! How on earth did you find it, though, when I couldn't even remember it existed? :rofl:

larrypl

I was looking for a way to sort dev, qa, stage, prod in that order (rather than dev, prod, qa, stage) and came across a stackexchange entry where you posted (10 years ago, IIRC) that you had written csort for that purpose. So now I can sort system names by their respective environments in logical order, because of csort! I'll find the entry if you're interested.

larrypl

This is my use: ``` csort -t$'\t' 2:/^dev/ 1 2:/^qa/ 2 2:/^stage/ 3 2:/^prod/ 4 ```

aspiers

Ah yes, found it: https://superuser.com/a/602918/104997 Again, zero recollection of this. I'm old enough that the internet has become the swap space for my brain :man_facepalming: :laughing:

larrypl

Ha! Me too.