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# sort
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> Sort lines of text files.
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- Sort a file in ascending order:
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`sort {{filename}}`
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- Sort a file in descending order:
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`sort -r {{filename}}`
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- Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order:
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`sort -n {{filename}}`
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- Sort the passwd file by the 3rd field, numerically:
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`sort -t: -k 3n /etc/passwd`
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- Sort a file preserving only unique lines:
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`sort -u {{filename}}`
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- Sort human-readable numbers (in this case the 5th field of `ls -lh`):
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`ls -lh | sort -h -k 5`
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