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diff --git a/man/1/sort b/man/1/sort new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a203d66e --- /dev/null +++ b/man/1/sort @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +.TH SORT 1 +.TH NAME +sort \- sort file +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B sort +[ +.B -nr +] [ +.I file +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Sort +sorts the lines of +.I file +(default: standard input) +and writes the sorted output to +standard output. +.PP +Whole lines are sorted into increasing order, using lexicographic ordering of Unicode characters +by default. +The sort is stable, so that lines that compare equal will appear in the output +in the same order as in the original file. +The sort order is affected by the following options: +.TP +.B -n +Each line is assumed to have an initial numeric string representing an integer, +with optional plus or minus sign, and the lines +are sorted by those numeric values into increasing order. +.TP +.B -r +Reverses the sense of comparisons. +.SH BUGS +The entire file is read into memory to be sorted. |
