sort: support percent arguments to -S option #7181
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Add support for parsing percent arguments to the
-S
option. The givenpercentage specifies a percentage of the total physical memory. For
Linux, the total physical memory is read from
/proc/meminfo
. Thefeature is not yet implemented for other systems.
In order to implement the feature, the
uucore::parser::parse_size
function was updated to recognize strings of the form
NNN%
.Fixes #3500