From 46439007cf417cbd9ac8049bb4122c890097a0fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Charles.Forsyth" Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:52:35 +0000 Subject: 20060303-partial --- man/1/sort | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/1/sort (limited to 'man/1/sort') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3