One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SORT)
Bharathi Subramanian
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sort - Sort lines of text files
Summary:
Sort the file contents based on options given to it.
By default the output is showed in the console.
Examples:
$ sort -- Take the input from stdin, sort and output
in stdout.
$ sort myfile -o myoutput -- Sort the myfile content
and store in "myoutput"
$ sort -b myfile -- Ignore the leading blanks and sort.
$ sort -br myfile -- Same as above but in reverse order
$ sort -c myfile -- Only Check whether myfile is already
sorted
$ sort -f myfile -- Ignore the case and sort (a == A)
$ sort -u myfile -- Sort and output only unique lines
$ sort -t : -k 2,2n -k 5.3,5.4 myfile
-- Sort numerically on the 2nd field and resolve
ties by sorting alphabetically on the 3rd and
4th characters of field 5. Use `:' as the
field delimiter
Read: man sort
HTH :)
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Bharathi S