diff --git a/pages/common/sort.md b/pages/common/sort.md index f20a49c71..d88ff15fe 100644 --- a/pages/common/sort.md +++ b/pages/common/sort.md @@ -1,22 +1,23 @@ # sort > Sort lines of text files. +> More information: . - Sort a file in ascending order: -`sort {{filename}}` +`sort {{path/to/file}}` - Sort a file in descending order: -`sort -r {{filename}}` +`sort -r {{path/to/file}}` - Sort a file in case-insensitive way: -`sort --ignore-case {{filename}}` +`sort --ignore-case {{path/to/file}}` - Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order: -`sort -n {{filename}}` +`sort -n {{path/to/file}}` - Sort the passwd file by the 3rd field, numerically: @@ -24,8 +25,12 @@ - Sort a file preserving only unique lines: -`sort -u {{filename}}` +`sort -u {{path/to/file}}` - Sort human-readable numbers (in this case the 5th field of `ls -lh`): `ls -lh | sort -h -k 5` + +- Sort numbers with exponents: + +`sort --general-numeric-sort {{path/to/file}}`