sort

Example

The sort command line is used to sort files and print the results line by line. It can also be used to remove duplicate lines from a file.

Here are examples of common uses of this command:

• Sort the contents of the file file.txt and print the result to the terminal:

sort file.txt

• Sort the contents of the file file.txt and write the result to the file output.txt:

sort file.txt -o output.txt

• Ignore case, sort the contents of the file file.txt and print the result to the terminal:

sort -f file.txt

• Sort numerically, sort the contents of the file file.txt and print the result to the terminal:

sort -n file.txt

• Remove duplicate lines from the file file.txt and print the result to the terminal:

sort -u file.txt

• Specify the field separator as comma, sort the contents of the file file.txt and print the result to the terminal:

sort -t ',' file.txt