sort — sort lines of text files
sort [OPTION...] [FILE...]
sort [OPTION...] −−files0−from=F
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is −, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options:
−b, −−ignore−leading−blanksignore leading blanks
−d, −−dictionary−orderconsider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
−f, −−ignore−casefold lower case to upper case characters
−g, −−general−numeric−sortcompare according to general numerical value
−i, −−ignore−nonprintingconsider only printable characters
−M, −−month−sortcompare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
−h, −−human−numeric−sortcompare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
−n, −−numeric−sortcompare according to string numerical value
−R, −−random−sortsort by random hash of keys
−−random−source=FILEget random bytes from FILE
−r, −−reversereverse the result of comparisons
−−sort=WORDsort according to WORD: general−numeric
−g,
human−numeric −h, month −M, numeric −n, random −R, version −V
−V, −−version−sortnatural sort of (version) numbers within text
Other options:
−−batch−size=NMERGEmerge at most NMERGE inputs at once; for more use temp files
−c, −−check, −−check=diagnose−firstcheck for sorted input; do not sort
−C, −−check=quiet, −−check=silentlike −c, but do
not report first bad line
−−compress−program=PROGcompress temporaries with PROG; decompress them with
PROG −d
−−debugannotate the part of the line used to sort, and warn about questionable usage to stderr
−−files0−from=Fread input from the files specified by NUL−terminated names in file F; If F is − then read names from standard input
−k, −−key=KEYDEFsort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type
−m, −−mergemerge already sorted files; do not sort
−o, −−output=FILEwrite result to FILE instead of standard output
−s, −−stablestabilize sort by disabling last−resort comparison
−S, −−buffer−size=SIZEuse SIZE for main memory buffer
−t, −−field−separator=SEPuse SEP instead of non−blank to blank transition
−T, −−temporary−directory=DIRuse DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp; multiple options specify
multiple directories
−−parallel=Nchange the number of sorts run concurrently to N
−u, −−uniquewith −c, check for
strict ordering; without −c, output only the first of an
equal run
−z, −−zero−terminatedline delimiter is NUL, not newline
−−helpdisplay this help and exit
−−versionoutput version information and exit
KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop
position, where F is a field number and C a character
position in the field; both are origin 1, and the stop
position defaults to the line's end. If neither −t nor −b is in effect, characters in a field
are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace.
OPTS is one or more single−letter ordering options
[bdfgiMhnRrV], which override global ordering options for
that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the
key.
SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sort translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sort invocation'
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