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| 2 | .he 'SORT (I)'9/2/72'SORT (I)' | |
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| 4 | NAME sort -- sort a file | |
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| 7 | SYNOPSIS sort\b\b\b\b____ [ -\b_ ] [ input [ output ] ] | |
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| 10 | DESCRIPTION sort\b\b\b\b____ | |
| 11 | will sort the input file and write the | |
| 12 | sorted file on the output file. | |
| 13 | If the output file is not given, | |
| 14 | the input file is rewritten. | |
| 15 | If the input file is missing, | |
| 16 | sort uses the standard input as | |
| 17 | input and the standard output for output. | |
| 18 | Thus sort\b\b\b\b____ may be used as a filter. | |
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| 20 | The sort is line-by-line in increasing ASCII collating sequence, | |
| 21 | except that upper-case letters are considered | |
| 22 | the same as the lower-case letters. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | The optional argument -\b_ will cause a reverse sort. | |
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| 26 | sort\b\b\b\b____ is implemented in such a way that | |
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| 28 | sort /dev/mt0 | |
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| 30 | works correctly provided the tape is not too big. | |
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| 33 | FILES /tmp/stm? | |
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| 36 | SEE ALSO -- | |
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| 39 | DIAGNOSTICS -- | |
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| 42 | BUGS The | |
| 43 | largest file that can be | |
| 44 | sorted is about 128K bytes. |