TSE-for-Linux: rename tsort to ssort

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Eric Pement

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Apr 3, 2026, 3:27:52 PMApr 3
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Suggest to rename "tsort" to "ssort" because "tsort" is a GNU utility installed by default in the /usr/bin directory in Linux Mint, while "ssort" is not a default utility . . . at least, not as a precompiled binary in the main /bin directory.

I just installed tse v4.50.22 and am just installing it.

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eric: ~/bin/tse $ which tsort
/usr/bin/tsort
eric: ~/bin/tse $ /usr/bin/tsort --version
tsort (GNU coreutils) 9.4
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mark Kettenis.
eric: ~/bin/tse $ /usr/bin/tsort --help
Usage: /usr/bin/tsort [OPTION] [FILE]
Write totally ordered list consistent with the partial ordering in FILE.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

      --help        display this help and exit
      --version     output version information and exit

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tsort>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tsort invocation'
eric: ~/bin/tse $ ./tsort --help
tsort v1.45 [08 Dec 2025] linux wcl 32-bit
total: 8,631 mb largest: 1,048,576,000 total alloc: 2,097,152,000 divider: 1
Sorting  to , in ascending order, case insensitive, starting col 1 len 16000
input file not specified
eric: ~/bin/tse $ which ssort
$ : [no output returned, meaning this name is available]
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The other benefit of renaming it from "tsort" to "ssort" is that it will group all the Semware tools together in a directory listing: sc32, sclip, sgrep, ssort

Kind regards,
Eric Pement

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