sort

Sort lines of text files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/sort.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install coreutils
Ubuntu
apt-get install coreutils
Alpine
apk add coreutils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S coreutils
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install coreutils
CentOS
yum install coreutils
Fedora
dnf install coreutils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install coreutils
OS X
brew install coreutils
Raspbian
apt-get install coreutils
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/sort sort powered by Commando

Sort lines of text files. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>.

  • Sort a file in ascending order:
    sort path/to/file
  • Sort a file in descending order:
    sort --reverse path/to/file
  • Sort a file in case-insensitive way:
    sort --ignore-case path/to/file
  • Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order:
    sort --numeric-sort path/to/file
  • Sort `/etc/passwd` by the 3rd field of each line numerically, using ":" as a field separator:
    sort --field-separator=: --key=3n /etc/passwd
  • Sort a file preserving only unique lines:
    sort --unique path/to/file
  • Sort a file, printing the output to the specified output file (can be used to sort a file in-place):
    sort --output=path/to/file path/to/file
  • Sort numbers with exponents:
    sort --general-numeric-sort path/to/file

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