From 544857623ba8692cd8f7ea25cc8f15b906a14951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sin <sin@2f30.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:08:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add -n support to sort(1)

---
 sort.1 |  5 ++++-
 sort.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sort.1 b/sort.1
index 6cbe030..7913357 100644
--- a/sort.1
+++ b/sort.1
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 sort \- sort lines
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B sort
-.RB [ \-ru ]
+.RB [ \-nru ]
 .RI [ file ...]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B sort
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ writes the sorted concatenation of the given files to stdout.  If no file is
 given, sort reads from stdin.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
+.B \-n
+perform a numeric sort.
+.TP
 .B \-r
 reverses the sort.
 .TP
diff --git a/sort.c b/sort.c
index f992423..348e16b 100644
--- a/sort.c
+++ b/sort.c
@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@ static int linecmp(const char **, const char **);
 
 static bool rflag = false;
 static bool uflag = false;
+static bool nflag = false;
 
 static struct linebuf linebuf = EMPTY_LINEBUF;
 
 static void
 usage(void)
 {
-	eprintf("usage: %s [-ru] [file...]\n", argv0);
+	eprintf("usage: %s [-nru] [file...]\n", argv0);
 }
 
 int
@@ -27,6 +28,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	FILE *fp;
 
 	ARGBEGIN {
+	case 'n':
+		nflag = true;
+		break;
 	case 'r':
 		rflag = true;
 		break;
@@ -63,6 +67,12 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 int
 linecmp(const char **a, const char **b)
 {
+	if (nflag) {
+		if (rflag)
+			return strtoul(*b, 0, 10) - strtoul(*a, 0, 10);
+		else
+			return strtoul(*a, 0, 10) - strtoul(*b, 0, 10);
+	}
 	return strcmp(*a, *b) * (rflag ? -1 : +1);
 }