That is the one command I miss from textmate very much, it satisfies the unix philosophy.

Sorting selections on arbitrary columns, transformations with sed/awk/cut/perl .

Why re-implement such things as plugins, when the functionality already exists?

I suspect that this would be trivial to implement as a plugin, so it probably already is.

If not, I will probably implement it myself, but I wish it were a builtin function.

EDIT: yep, one implementation here: https://gist.github.com/1251716 

That is the one command I miss from textmate very much, it satisfies the unix philosophy.

Sorting selections on arbitrary columns, transformations with sed/awk/cut/perl .

Why re-implement such things as plugins, when the functionality already exists in unix?

I suspect that this would be trivial to implement as a plugin, so it probably already is.

If not, I will probably implement it myself, but I wish it were a builtin function.