uxsort

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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

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

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options:

-b

ignore leading blanks

-d

consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters

-f

fold lower case to upper case characters

-g

compare according to general numerical value

-i

consider only printable characters

-M

compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'

-n

compare according to string numerical value

-r

reverse the result of comparisons

Other options:

-c

check for sorted input; do not sort

-k

sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type

-m

merge already sorted files; do not sort

-o

write result to FILE instead of standard output

-s

stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison

-t

use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition

-T

use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or ,/tmp/; multiple options specify multiple directories

-u

with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run

-z

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where F is a field number and C a character position in the field; both are origin 1, and the stop position defaults to the line's end. If neither -t nor -b is in effect, characters in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfgiMhnRrV], which override global ordering options for that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the key.

SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.  

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Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) sort invocationaq