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Current sort:

sort (V coreutils) 0.0.1
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Usage: sort [options] [FILE]

Description: 
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Options:
  -b, --ignore-leading-blanks
                            ignore leading blanks
  -d, --dictionary-order    consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
  -f, --ignore-case         fold lower case to upper case characters
  -i, --ignore-non-printing
                            consider only printable characters
  -n, --numeric-sort        Restrict the sort key to an initial numeric
                            string, consisting of optional <blank> characters,
                            optional <hyphen-minus> character, and zero or
                            more digits, which shall be sorted by arithmetic
                            value. An empty digit string shall be treated as
                            zero. Leading zeros shall not affect ordering.
  -r, --reverse             reverse the result of comparisons

Other options:
  -c                        check for sorted input; do not sort
  -C                        like -c, but do not report first bad line
  -k, --key <multiple strings>
                            sort via a key(s); <string> gives location and type
  -m, --merge               merge already sorted files; do not sort
  -t                        use <string> as field separator
  -o, --output <string>     write result to FILE instead of standard output
  -u, --unique              with -c, check for strict ordering;
                            without -c, output only the first of an equal run
  -h, --help                display this help and exit
  --version                 output version information and exit

KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position,
where F is a field number and C a character position in the
field; both are origin 1, and the stop position defaults to the
line's end.  If neither -t nor -b is in effect, characters in a
field are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace.
OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfir], which
override global ordering options for that key. If no key is
given, use the entire line as the key.

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GNU sort:

Usage: sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
  or:  sort [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
Ordering options:

  -b, --ignore-leading-blanks  ignore leading blanks
  -d, --dictionary-order      consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
  -f, --ignore-case           fold lower case to upper case characters
  -g, --general-numeric-sort  compare according to general numerical value
  -i, --ignore-nonprinting    consider only printable characters
  -M, --month-sort            compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
  -h, --human-numeric-sort    compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
  -n, --numeric-sort          compare according to string numerical value;
                                see full documentation for supported strings
  -R, --random-sort           shuffle, but group identical keys.  See shuf(1)
      --random-source=FILE    get random bytes from FILE
  -r, --reverse               reverse the result of comparisons
      --sort=WORD             sort according to WORD:
                                general-numeric -g, human-numeric -h, month -M,
                                numeric -n, random -R, version -V
  -V, --version-sort          natural sort of (version) numbers within text

Other options:

      --batch-size=NMERGE   merge at most NMERGE inputs at once;
                            for more use temp files
  -c, --check, --check=diagnose-first  check for sorted input; do not sort
  -C, --check=quiet, --check=silent  like -c, but do not report first bad line
      --compress-program=PROG  compress temporaries with PROG;
                              decompress them with PROG -d
      --debug               annotate the part of the line used to sort, and
                              warn about questionable usage to standard error
      --files0-from=F       read input from the files specified by
                            NUL-terminated names in file F;
                            If F is - then read names from standard input
  -k, --key=KEYDEF          sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type
  -m, --merge               merge already sorted files; do not sort
  -o, --output=FILE         write result to FILE instead of standard output
  -s, --stable              stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
  -S, --buffer-size=SIZE    use SIZE for main memory buffer
  -t, --field-separator=SEP  use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition
  -T, --temporary-directory=DIR  use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp;
                              multiple options specify multiple directories
      --parallel=N          change the number of sorts run concurrently to N
  -u, --unique              output only the first of lines with equal keys;
                              with -c, check for strict ordering
  -z, --zero-terminated     line delimiter is NUL, not newline
      --help        display this help and exit
      --version     output version information and exit

KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where F is a
field number and C a character position in the field; both are origin 1, and
the stop position defaults to the line's end.  If neither -t nor -b is in
effect, characters in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding
whitespace.  OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfgiMhnRrV],
which override global ordering options for that key.  If no key is given, use
the entire line as the key.  Use --debug to diagnose incorrect key usage.

SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
% 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y, R, Q.

*** WARNING ***
The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.

Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sort invocation'

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