HPR1172: LiTS 022: Sort

The sort command does just that, it sorts input.  Input can be a list of files, standard in, or files with standard in. The first example presents this simple file, shopping.txt,  containing a list of items:

chicken
fish
sour cream
bread crumbs
milk
eggs
bread
sinkers
fishing hooks

Issuing the sort command on this file:

sort shopping.txt

Would present the following output:

bread
bread crumbs
chicken
eggs
fish
fishing hooks
milk
sinkers
sour cream

For more information including a complete video please see https://www.linuxintheshell.com/2013/01/29/episode-022-sort/

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