sort

Sort lines

Usage

      sort FILE

Sorts the lines of FILE alphabetically

Common Flags

-h, --human-numeric-sort Sort human-readable values-n, --numeric-sort Sort numerical values-r, --reverse Reverse order of sorting

Examples

Sort numbers

      sort -n numbers.txt

Sorts the numbers in numbers.txt in ascending order

Descending order

      sort -nr numbers.txt

Sorts the numbers in descending order

Sort files by file size

      du -hcd 0 * | sort -h

Sorts files in the current directory by file size