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Sort lines of text files.

Options (7)

-r, --reverseboolean

Sort a file in descending order

Example: sort {{[-r|--reverse]}} {{path/to/file}}

-f, --ignore-caseboolean

Sort a file in case-insensitive way

Example: sort {{[-f|--ignore-case]}} {{path/to/file}}

-n, --numeric-sortboolean

Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order

Example: sort {{[-n|--numeric-sort]}} {{path/to/file}}

-t, --field-separatorboolean

Sort `/etc/passwd` by the 3rd field onward of each line numerically, using `:` as a field separator

Example: sort {{[-t|--field-separator]}} : {{[-k|--key]}} 3n /etc/passwd

-k, --keyboolean

Sort `/etc/passwd` by the 3rd field onward of each line numerically, using `:` as a field separator

Example: sort {{[-t|--field-separator]}} : {{[-k|--key]}} 3n /etc/passwd

-u, --uniqueboolean

Sort a file preserving only unique lines

Example: sort {{[-u|--unique]}} {{path/to/file}}

-o, --outputboolean

Sort a file, printing the output to the specified output file (can be used to sort a file in-place)

Example: sort {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/output_file}} {{path/to/input_file}}

Sort a file in ascending order

sort path/to/file

Sort a file in descending order

sort [-r|--reverse] path/to/file

Sort a file in case-insensitive way

sort [-f|--ignore-case] path/to/file

Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order

sort [-n|--numeric-sort] path/to/file

Sort `/etc/passwd` by the 3rd field onward of each line numerically, using `:` as a field separator

sort [-t|--field-separator] : [-k|--key] 3n /etc/passwd

As above, but when items in the 3rd field are equal, sort by the 4th field by numbers with exponents

sort [-t|--field-separator] : [-k|--key] 3,3n [-k|--key] 4,4g /etc/passwd

Sort a file preserving only unique lines

sort [-u|--unique] path/to/file

Sort a file, printing the output to the specified output file (can be used to sort a file in-place)

sort [-o|--output] path/to/output_file path/to/input_file