$ sort

Sort lines of text files

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Synopsis

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

What it does

`sort` writes a sorted concatenation of all FILEs to standard output.
The exact ordering depends on the selected comparison options and locale.

Examples

Sort lines alphabetically

sort names.txt

Numeric sort

sort -n numbers.txt

Reverse sort

sort -r names.txt

Important details

These examples are intentionally conservative. Command behavior can still depend on filesystem state, permissions, locale, shell, installed package version, and other system configuration. For exact option semantics, the linked authoritative documentation is the source of truth.

Authoritative documentation

Ubuntu / GNU documentation ↗ Ubuntu Manpage Repository ↗