Comments on: 14 Useful Examples of ‘Sort’ Command in Linux – Part 1

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:25:44 +0000

@Cschanzie,

Thank you for the correction, I have updated the article regarding “number of links” being “hard” is much appreciated.

We’ll ensure the accurate terminology is used in the article.

By: cschanzle

cschanzle — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:16:50 +0000

In "7. Sort the contents of file ‘lsl.txt‘ on the basis of 2nd column (which represents number of symbolic links)." It is incorrect to say "symbolic links". It's the number of links, "hard" if you want to distinguish.

By: Aditya Garg

Aditya Garg — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:24:33 +0000

1. A key specification like -k2 means to take all the fields from 2 to the end of the line into account. To sort by a single column, use -k2,2 as the key specification. This means to use the fields from #2 to #2, i.e. only the second field. 2. While doing something like "sort -nk5,5 table.txt", why does the sort command remove entries with 0? (have files with size 0-should get sorted not removed)

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:10:47 +0000

The link to 7 Interesting Sort Commands does not work properly. It loads this article

There are only 10 ‘sort’ command examples. The other four entries just create files to be input to the ‘sort’ command examples.

By: Johnny Rosenberg

Johnny Rosenberg — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:38:02 +0000

Hi!
Just wondering why you type ”/home/$USER/” instead of just ”$HOME/”. Unnecessary typing. Just saying. :) Or am I missing something?