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.TH SORT 1 sbase\-VERSION
add sort
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.SH NAME
sort \- sort lines
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sort
sort: document -b
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.RB [ \-bnru ]
add -t flag to sort
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.RB [ \-t
.IR delim ]
sort: add -k, fix -u Options that are specific to a single key definition are not supported (e.g. "sort -k 2,3n -k 4,4"). Should you try to specify such definitions, sort will return with EXIT_FAILURE and an error message. Instead, all key definitions exclusively use the global settings. It always behaves like -b was set.
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.RB [ \-k
add -t flag to sort
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.IR key ]...
add sort
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.RI [ file ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B sort
writes the sorted concatenation of the given files to stdout. If no file is
given, sort reads from stdin.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
sort: document -b
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.B \-b
skip leading whitespace of columns when sorting.
.TP
add -t flag to sort
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.BI \-k \ key
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specifies a key definition of the form
.BR S [. s ][ f ][, E [. e ][ f ]]
sort: add -k, fix -u Options that are specific to a single key definition are not supported (e.g. "sort -k 2,3n -k 4,4"). Should you try to specify such definitions, sort will return with EXIT_FAILURE and an error message. Instead, all key definitions exclusively use the global settings. It always behaves like -b was set.
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where
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.BR S ,
.BR s ,
.BR E ,
sort: add -k, fix -u Options that are specific to a single key definition are not supported (e.g. "sort -k 2,3n -k 4,4"). Should you try to specify such definitions, sort will return with EXIT_FAILURE and an error message. Instead, all key definitions exclusively use the global settings. It always behaves like -b was set.
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and
.B e
are the starting column, starting character in that column, ending column and
the ending character of that column respectively. If they are not specified,
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.B s
refers to the first character of the specified starting column,
.B E
refers to the last column of every line, and
.B e
refers to the last character of that last column.
.B f
can be used to specify options
.RB ( n ,
.BR b )
that only apply to this key definition.
.B b
is special in that it only applies to the column that it was specified after.
add -t flag to sort
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.TP
.B \-n
perform a numeric sort.
.TP
.B \-r
reverses the sort.
.TP
.BI \-t \ delim
specifies the field delimiter.
.TP
.B \-u
prints equal lines only once.