sort.md

##sort

NAME

sort - sort lines of text file

SYNOPSIS

sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.

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'
• -n, --numeric-sort
  • compare according to string numerical value
• -r, --reverse
  • reverse the result of comparisons

EXAMPLES

$ cat num alpha alphaNum
2
1
b
a
z 1
y 2
$ sort num alpha alphaNum
1
2
a
b
y 2 
z 1
$