SORT

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NAME

sort - ASCII sort files

SYNOPSIS

sort [ sort_options ] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Sort is used to sort the input file. Lines of input are taken from the file named on the sort command or if no file is given, input is taken from standard input.

OPTIONS

The following command line options are supported. The options are not case sensitive, so /r is equivalent to /R.

/r: Sort in reverse order.
/h: Display a brief help message.

The notation /+num causes the sort key to begin in column num. The first column is colum 1.

EXAMPLES

Sort the contents of file1 using the entire line as the sort key.

: Example% sort file1

: Example% sort <file1

Sort file1 in reverse order (Z-A) based on the key starting in column 21.

: Example% sort /R /+21 <file1

Sort c:\tmp\foobar.dat using the key in column 5 and put the output on a file called data.out residing on the B: floppy drive.

: Example% sort /+5 c:\tmp\foobar.dat >b:data.out

BUGS

This version of sort only uses conventional ram and does not do an out-of-memory sort, so it is limited to what can fit in available memory. The maximum record length is 1000 characters and the maximum number of records that can be sorted is 10,000. This does not mean that you will be able to sort 10,000 records of 1000 characters each, since you would run out of memory before you read all of the data in.

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