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  1. .Dd 2016-02-17
  2. .Dt SORT 1
  3. .Os sbase
  4. .Sh NAME
  5. .Nm sort
  6. .Nd sort lines
  7. .Sh SYNOPSIS
  8. .Nm
  9. .Op Fl Cbcdfimnru
  10. .Op Fl o Ar outfile
  11. .Op Fl t Ar delim
  12. .Op Fl k Ar key ...
  13. .Op Ar file ...
  14. .Sh DESCRIPTION
  15. .Nm
  16. writes the sorted concatenation of each
  17. .Ar file
  18. to stdout.
  19. If no
  20. .Ar file
  21. is given
  22. .Nm
  23. reads from stdin.
  24. .Sh OPTIONS
  25. .Bl -tag -width Ds
  26. .It Fl C
  27. Check that the concatenation of the given
  28. .Ar files
  29. is sorted rather than sorting them.
  30. In this mode, no output is printed to stdout, and the exit status
  31. indicates the result of the check.
  32. .It Fl b
  33. Skip leading whitespace of columns when sorting.
  34. .It Fl c
  35. The same as
  36. .Fl C
  37. except that when disorder is detected, a message is written to stderr
  38. indicating the location of the disorder.
  39. .It Fl d
  40. Skip non-whitespace and non-alphanumeric characters.
  41. .It Fl f
  42. Ignore letter case when sorting.
  43. .It Fl i
  44. Skip non-printable characters.
  45. .It Fl k Ar key
  46. Specify a key definition of the form
  47. .Sm off
  48. .Sy S
  49. .No [.
  50. .Sy s
  51. .No ][
  52. .Sy f
  53. .No ][,
  54. .Sy E
  55. .No [.
  56. .Sy e
  57. .No ][
  58. .Sy f
  59. .No ]]
  60. .Sm on
  61. where
  62. .Sy S , s , E
  63. and
  64. .Sy e
  65. are the starting column, starting character in that column, ending column and
  66. the ending character of that column respectively.
  67. If they are not specified,
  68. .Sy s
  69. refers to the first character of the specified starting column,
  70. .Sy E
  71. refers to the last column of every line, and
  72. .Sy e
  73. refers to the last character of the ending column.
  74. .Sy f
  75. can be used to specify options
  76. .Sy ( n , b )
  77. that only apply to this key definition.
  78. .Sy b
  79. is special in that it only applies to the column that it was specified after.
  80. .It Fl m
  81. Assume sorted input, merge only.
  82. .It Fl n
  83. Perform a numeric sort.
  84. .It Fl o Ar outfile
  85. Write output to
  86. .Ar outfile
  87. rather than stdout.
  88. .It Fl r
  89. Reverses the sort.
  90. .It Fl t Ar delim
  91. Set
  92. .Ar delim
  93. as the field delimiter.
  94. .It Fl u
  95. Print equal lines only once.
  96. .El
  97. .Sh STANDARDS
  98. The
  99. .Nm
  100. utility is compliant with the
  101. .St -p1003.1-2013
  102. specification.