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diff --git a/man/sort.1 b/man/sort.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5ec476 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/sort.1 @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5. +.TH SORT "1" "April 2022" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +sort \- sort lines of text files +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B sort +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]... +.br +.B sort +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--files0-from=F\/\fR +.SH DESCRIPTION +.\" Add any additional description here +.PP +Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. +.PP +With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input. +.PP +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. +Ordering options: +.TP +\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-leading\-blanks\fR +ignore leading blanks +.TP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-dictionary\-order\fR +consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR +fold lower case to upper case characters +.TP +\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-general\-numeric\-sort\fR +compare according to general numerical value +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-nonprinting\fR +consider only printable characters +.TP +\fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-month\-sort\fR +compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC' +.TP +\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-human\-numeric\-sort\fR +compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G) +.TP +\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-numeric\-sort\fR +compare according to string numerical value +.TP +\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-random\-sort\fR +shuffle, but group identical keys. See \fBshuf\fP(1) +.TP +\fB\-\-random\-source\fR=\fI\,FILE\/\fR +get random bytes from FILE +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reverse\fR +reverse the result of comparisons +.TP +\fB\-\-sort\fR=\fI\,WORD\/\fR +sort according to WORD: +general\-numeric \fB\-g\fR, human\-numeric \fB\-h\fR, month \fB\-M\fR, +numeric \fB\-n\fR, random \fB\-R\fR, version \fB\-V\fR +.TP +\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\-sort\fR +natural sort of (version) numbers within text +.PP +Other options: +.TP +\fB\-\-batch\-size\fR=\fI\,NMERGE\/\fR +merge at most NMERGE inputs at once; +for more use temp files +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR=\fI\,diagnose\-first\/\fR +check for sorted input; do not sort +.TP +\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR=\fI\,quiet\/\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR=\fI\,silent\/\fR +like \fB\-c\fR, but do not report first bad line +.TP +\fB\-\-compress\-program\fR=\fI\,PROG\/\fR +compress temporaries with PROG; +decompress them with PROG \fB\-d\fR +.TP +\fB\-\-debug\fR +annotate the part of the line used to sort, +and warn about questionable usage to stderr +.TP +\fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fI\,F\/\fR +read input from the files specified by +NUL\-terminated names in file F; +If F is \- then read names from standard input +.TP +\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-key\fR=\fI\,KEYDEF\/\fR +sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type +.TP +\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-merge\fR +merge already sorted files; do not sort +.TP +\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=\fI\,FILE\/\fR +write result to FILE instead of standard output +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-stable\fR +stabilize sort by disabling last\-resort comparison +.TP +\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-buffer\-size\fR=\fI\,SIZE\/\fR +use SIZE for main memory buffer +.TP +\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-field\-separator\fR=\fI\,SEP\/\fR +use SEP instead of non\-blank to blank transition +.TP +\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-temporary\-directory\fR=\fI\,DIR\/\fR +use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or \fI\,/tmp\/\fP; +multiple options specify multiple directories +.TP +\fB\-\-parallel\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR +change the number of sorts run concurrently to N +.TP +\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-unique\fR +with \fB\-c\fR, check for strict ordering; +without \fB\-c\fR, output only the first of an equal run +.TP +\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR +line delimiter is NUL, not newline +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +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 \fB\-t\fR nor \fB\-b\fR 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. Use \fB\-\-debug\fR to diagnose incorrect key usage. +.PP +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. +.PP +*** 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. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> +.br +Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +\fBshuf\fP(1), \fBuniq\fP(1) +.PP +.br +Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort> +.br +or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) sort invocation\(aq |