sort

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sort command included in coreutils package

• Man: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/sort.1.html

sort: write failed: /tmp/sortXksILS: No space left on device

Examples

• sort -rnk2
• find . -ls | sort -rnk7 | more
• Sort by last column: cat file | awk '{print $NF,$0}' | sort -rn | cut -f2- -d' '

Related

• tsort

Activities

• Read https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sort?tab=Votes

See also

• cat, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat