sort
Sort lines of text files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort.
- Sort a file in ascending order:
sort {{path/to/file}}
- Sort a file in descending order:
sort --reverse {{path/to/file}}
- Sort a file in case-insensitive way:
sort --ignore-case {{path/to/file}}
- Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order:
sort --numeric-sort {{path/to/file}}
- Sort
/etc/passwd
by the 3rd field of each line numerically, using ":" as a field separator:sort --field-separator={{:}} --key={{3n}} {{/etc/passwd}}
- Sort a file preserving only unique lines:
sort --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 --output={{path/to/file}} {{path/to/file}}
- Sort numbers with exponents:
sort --general-numeric-sort {{path/to/file}}
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