HPR1172: LiTS 022: Sort

Summary: Linux In The Shell aims to explore the use of many commands a user can run in the Bash Shell. Tutorials include a write up with examples, an audio component about the write up, and a video component to demonstrate the usage of the command. The website is http://www.linuxintheshell.org/ In todays episode 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 http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2013/01/29/episode-022-sort/