Section (1) sort
Name
sort — sort lines of text files
Synopsis
sort
[OPTION
...] [FILE
...]
sort
[OPTION
...] −−files0−from
=F
DESCRIPTION
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−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) < _zsingle_quotesz_JAN_zsingle_quotesz_ < ... < _zsingle_quotesz_DEC_zsingle_quotesz_
−h
,−−human−numeric−sort
-
compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
−n
,−−numeric−sort
-
compare according to string numerical value
−R
,−−random−sort
-
shuffle, but group identical keys. See shuf(1)
−−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
Other options:
−−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
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_zsingle_quotesz_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.
Use −−debug
to
diagnose incorrect key usage.
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.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>
or available locally via: info _zsingle_quotesz_(coreutils) sort invocation_zsingle_quotesz_
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