Intro to sort

13Jul08

The sort command will sort the lines in a text file according to various criteria. The default sort order is ASCII character order, which has punctuation characters first, then numbers, then upper case letters, then lower case letters.

Example of an unsorted file:

$ cat file1
sarah
.
John
7
carol
Claire
eric
43
,

Sorting the file:

$ sort file1
,
.
43
7
Claire
John
carol
eric
sarah

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