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- SORT(1) Minix Programmer's Manual SORT(1)
- NAME
- sort - sort a file of ASCII lines
- SYNOPSIS
- sort [-bcdfimnru] [-tc] [-o name] [+pos1] [-pos2] file ...
- OPTIONS
- -b Skip leading blanks when making comparisons
- -c Check to see if a file is sorted
- -d Dictionary order: ignore punctuation
- -f Fold upper case onto lower case
- -i Ignore nonASCII characters
- -m Merge presorted files
- -n Numeric sort order
- -o Next argument is output file
- -r Reverse the sort order
- -t Following character is field separator
- -u Unique mode (delete duplicate lines)
- EXAMPLES
- sort -nr file # Sort keys numerically, reversed
- sort +2 -4 file # Sort using fields 2 and 3 as key
- sort +2 -t: -o out # Field separator is :
- sort +.3 -.6 # Characters 3 through 5 form the key
- DESCRIPTION
- Sort sorts one or more files. If no files are specified, stdin is
- sorted. Output is written on standard output, unless -o is specified.
- The options +pos1 -pos2 use only fields pos1 up to but not including pos2
- as the sort key, where a field is a string of characters delimited by
- spaces and tabs, unless a different field delimiter is specified with -t.
- Both pos1 and pos2 have the form m.n where m tells the number of fields
- and n tells the number of characters. Either m or n may be omitted.
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- SEE ALSO
- comm(1), grep(1), uniq(1).
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