tldr/pages/linux/sort.md

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sort

Sort lines of text files.

  • Sort a file in ascending order:

sort {{filename}}

  • Sort a file in descending order:

sort -r {{filename}}

  • Sort a file using numeric rather than alphabetic order:

sort -n {{filename}}

  • Sort the passwd file by the 3rd field, numerically:

sort -t: -k 3n /etc/passwd

  • Sort human-readable numbers (in this case the 5th field of ls -lh):

ls -lh | sort -h -k 5