SORT(1)                     General Commands Manual                    SORT(1)

NAME
       sort - Display sorted concatenation of all FILE(s). With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

SYNOPSIS
       sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       Display sorted concatenation of all FILE(s). With no FILE, or when FILE
       is -, read standard input.

OPTIONS
       --help Print help information.

       --version
              Print version information.

       --sort

              Possible values:

                     o general-numeric

                     o human-numeric

                     o month

                     o numeric

                     o version

                     o random

       -h, --human-numeric-sort
              compare according to human readable sizes, eg 1M > 100k

       -M, --month-sort
              compare according to month name abbreviation

       -n, --numeric-sort
              compare according to string numerical value

       -g, --general-numeric-sort
              compare according to string general numerical value

       -V, --version-sort
              Sort by SemVer version number, eg 1.12.2 > 1.1.2

       -R, --random-sort
              shuffle in random order

       --random-source <FILE>
              use FILE as a source of random data

       -d, --dictionary-order
              consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters

       -m, --merge
              merge already sorted files; do not sort

       -c, --check
              check for sorted input; do not sort

              Possible values:

                     o silent

                     o quiet

                     o diagnose-first

       -C, --check-silent
              exit successfully if the given file is already sorted, and exit
              with status 1 otherwise.

       -f, --ignore-case
              fold lower case to upper case characters

       -i, --ignore-nonprinting
              ignore nonprinting characters

       -b, --ignore-leading-blanks
              ignore leading blanks when finding sort keys in each line

       -o, --output <FILENAME>
              write output to FILENAME instead of stdout

       -r, --reverse
              reverse the output

       -s, --stable
              stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison

       -u, --unique
              output only the first of an equal run

       -k, --key
              sort by a key

       -t, --field-separator
              custom separator for -k

       -z, --zero-terminated
              line delimiter is NUL, not newline

       --parallel <NUM_THREADS>
              change the number of threads running concurrently to NUM_THREADS

       -S, --buffer-size <SIZE>
              sets the maximum SIZE of each segment in number of sorted items

       -T, --temporary-directory <DIR>
              use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp

       --compress-program <PROG>
              compress temporary files with PROG, decompress with PROG -d;
              PROG has to take input from stdin and output to stdout

       --batch-size <N_MERGE>
              Merge at most N_MERGE inputs at once.

       --files0-from <NUL_FILE>
              read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated NUL_FILE

       --debug
              underline the parts of the line that are actually used for
              sorting

       [files]


EXTRA
       The key format is FIELD[.CHAR][OPTIONS][,FIELD[.CHAR]][OPTIONS].

       Fields by default are separated by the first whitespace after a
       non-whitespace character. Use -t to specify a custom separator.  In the
       default case, whitespace is appended at the beginning of each field.
       Custom separators however are not included in fields.

       FIELD and CHAR both start at 1 (i.e. they are 1-indexed). If there is
       no end specified after a comma, the end will be the end of the line.
       If CHAR is set 0, it means the end of the field. CHAR defaults to 1 for
       the start position and to 0 for the end position.

       Valid options are: MbdfhnRrV. They override the global options for this
       key.

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0

                                  2026-09-01                           SORT(1)