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SORT(1) | User Commands | SORT(1) |
NAME¶
sort - sort lines of text filesSYNOPSIS¶
sort [ OPTION]... [FILE]...DESCRIPTION¶
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options:- -b, --ignore-leading-blanks
- ignore leading blanks
- -d, --dictionary-order
- consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
- -f, --ignore-case
- fold lower case to upper case characters
- -g, --general-numeric-sort
- compare according to general numerical value
- -i, --ignore-nonprinting
- consider only printable characters
- -M, --month-sort
- compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
- -h, --human-numeric-sort
- compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
- -n, --numeric-sort
- compare according to string numerical value
- -R, --random-sort
- sort by random hash of keys
- --random-source=FILE
- get random bytes from FILE
- -r, --reverse
- reverse the result of comparisons
- --sort=WORD
- sort according to WORD: general-numeric -g, human-numeric -h, month -M, numeric -n, random -R, version -V
- -V, --version-sort
- natural sort of (version) numbers within text
- --batch-size=NMERGE
- merge at most NMERGE inputs at once; for more use temp files
- -c, --check, --check=diagnose-first
- check for sorted input; do not sort
- -C, --check=quiet, --check=silent
- like -c, but do not report first bad line
- --compress-program=PROG
- compress temporaries with PROG; decompress them with PROG -d
- --debug
- annotate the part of the line used to sort, and warn about questionable usage to stderr
- --files0-from=F
- read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
- -k, --key=KEYDEF
- sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type
- -m, --merge
- merge already sorted files; do not sort
- -o, --output=FILE
- write result to FILE instead of standard output
- -s, --stable
- stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
- -S, --buffer-size=SIZE
- use SIZE for main memory buffer
- -t, --field-separator=SEP
- use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition
- -T, --temporary-directory=DIR
- use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp; multiple options specify multiple directories
- --parallel=N
- change the number of sorts run concurrently to N
- -u, --unique
- with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run
- -z, --zero-terminated
- line delimiter is NUL, not newline
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR¶
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS¶
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.SEE ALSO¶
uniq(1) Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>March 2015 | GNU coreutils 8.23 |