sort - Display sorted concatenation of all FILE(s). With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
sort [--help]
[--version] [--sort]
[-h|--human-numeric-sort]
[-M|--month-sort]
[-n|--numeric-sort]
[-g|--general-numeric-sort]
[-V|--version-sort]
[-R|--random-sort]
[--random-source]
[-d|--dictionary-order]
[-m|--merge]
[-c|--check]
[-C|--check-silent]
[-f|--ignore-case]
[-i|--ignore-nonprinting]
[-b|--ignore-leading-blanks]
[-o|--output]
[-r|--reverse]
[-s|--stable]
[-u|--unique]
[-k|--key]
[-t|--field-separator]
[-z|--zero-terminated]
[--parallel]
[-S|--buffer-size]
[-T|--temporary-directory]
[--compress-program] [--batch-size]
[--files0-from] [--debug]
[files]
Display sorted concatenation of all FILE(s). With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Print help information.
Print version information.
Possible values:
general-numeric
human-numeric
month
numeric
version
random
compare according to human readable sizes, eg 1M > 100k
compare according to month name abbreviation
compare according to string numerical value
compare according to string general numerical value
Sort by SemVer version number, eg 1.12.2 > 1.1.2
shuffle in random order
<FILE>use FILE as a source of random data
consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
merge already sorted files; do not sort
check for sorted input; do not sort
Possible values:
silent
quiet
diagnose-first
exit successfully if the given file is already sorted, and exit with status 1 otherwise.
fold lower case to upper case characters
ignore nonprinting characters
ignore leading blanks when finding sort keys in each line
<FILENAME>write output to FILENAME instead of stdout
reverse the output
stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
output only the first of an equal run
sort by a key
custom separator for -k
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
<NUM_THREADS>change the number of threads running concurrently to NUM_THREADS
<SIZE>sets the maximum SIZE of each segment in number of sorted items
<DIR>use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp
<PROG>compress temporary files with PROG, decompress with PROG -d; PROG has to take input from stdin and output to stdout
<N_MERGE>Merge at most N_MERGE inputs at once.
<NUL_FILE>read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated NUL_FILE
underline the parts of the line that are actually used for sorting
files]The key format is FIELD[.CHAR][OPTIONS][,FIELD[.CHAR]][OPTIONS].
Fields by default are separated by the first whitespace after a non-whitespace character. Use -t to specify a custom separator. In the default case, whitespace is appended at the beginning of each field. Custom separators however are not included in fields.
FIELD and CHAR both start at 1 (i.e. they are 1-indexed). If there is no end specified after a comma, the end will be the end of the line. If CHAR is set 0, it means the end of the field. CHAR defaults to 1 for the start position and to 0 for the end position.
Valid options are: MbdfhnRrV. They override the global options for this key.
v(uutils coreutils) 0.10.0
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
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.