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Sort(V1.3) ARP User's Manual Sort(V1.3)
NAME
Sort - Sort a file.
SYNOPSIS
Sort From To COLSTART/k WIDTH/k CASE/s
DESCRIPTION
Sort attempts to remedy the defects of the AmigaDOS sort
command. Unlike the AmigaDOS Sort command, this program is
quite fast even for very large files (approximately five
times faster than the AmigaDOS sort), and will not crash,
even using the small default stack and very large files.
If you omit the From argument from Sort, it reads from its
standard input, which allows it to be used in pipelines.
OPTIONS
COLSTART
This takes a numeric argument which gives the starting
column for the sort. All entries to the left of this
column will not be considered in the final arrangement.
WIDTH
This takes a numeric argument, which gives the width
for the sort. You can use this to specify a 'window'
for Sort to work on. For example, using a WIDTH of 4
will arrange a file based on the first 4 characters of
each line. If you also use COLSTART, then the first 4
characters starting at that column will be the ones on
which the sort is based.
CASE
The CASE switch will use a case-sensitive match, rather than
the default case-insensitive match.
EXAMPLE
list >listfile
sort listfile colstart 41
or using pipes: list | sort colstart 41
This gives a listing of all files sorted by time (i.e., from
the earliest to the latest).
SEE ALSO
Ash Manual
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