sort¶

Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password¶

sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo

intersection between two files¶

sort file1 file2 | uniq -d

Poor man's unsort (randomize lines)¶

sort random-sort file

Read, sort and confirm uniqueness of entries in files and directories¶

sort -u filename > newfilename

Pass TAB as field separator to sort, join, cut, etc.¶

sort -t $'\t' -k 2 input.txt

Sort IPV4 ip addresses¶

sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n

Randomize lines in a file¶

sort -R SOMEFILE

List of directories sorted by number of files they contain.¶

sort -n <( for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d); do echo $(find $i | wc -l) ": $i"; done;)

Sort lines using the Xth characted as the start of the sort string¶

sort -k1.x

To have only unique lines in a file¶

sort file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

Sort output by length of line¶

sortwc () { local L;while read -r L;do builtin printf "${#L}@%s\n" "$L";done|sort -n|sed -u 's/^[^@]*@//'; }

List your MACs address¶

sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address

Sort IP addresses¶

sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 /file/of/ip/addresses

sort monthwise¶

sort -M filename

Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)¶

sort -R

Pick a random line from a file¶

sort -R file.txt | head -1

sort ugly text¶

sort -bdf

Sort dotted quads¶

sort -nt . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4

Sort Apache access.log by date and time¶

sort -s -b -t' ' -k 4.9,4.12n -k 4.5,4.7M -k 4.2,4.3n -k 4.14,4.15n -k 4.17,4.18n -k 4.20,4.21n access.log*

Count unique lines in file sorted by instance count (descending) and alphabetically (ascending)¶

sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -k1nr -k2d

sort a list of comma separated numbers: sort_csn¶

sort_csn () { echo "${1}" | sed -e "s/,/\n/g"| sort -nu | awk '{printf("%s,",$0)} END {printf("\n")}' | sed -e "s/,$//"; }

Sort IPv4 address in order¶

sort -V ~/ip.txt

sort the contents of a text file in place.¶

sort -g -o list.txt{,}

Remove duplicate line in a text file.¶

sort in-file.txt | uniq -u > out-file.txt

sort a csv file according to a particular n th field numerically (quicker than excel)¶

sort -t"," -n -k5 file.csv  # according to the 5th field NUMERICALLY!!

Sort using kth column using : delimiter¶

sort -t: -k 2 names.txt

Unique sort¶

sort namesd.txt | uniq

Unique sort¶

sort namesd.txt | uniq

Show duplicate lines in a file¶

sort namesd.txt | uniq ?cd

Pass TAB as field separator to sort, join, cut, etc.¶

sort -t $'\t' -k 2 input.txt

Sort IPV4 ip addresses¶

sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n

Randomize lines in a file¶

sort -R SOMEFILE

List of directories sorted by number of files they contain.¶

sort -n <( for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d); do echo $(find $i | wc -l) ": $i"; done;)

Sort lines using the Xth characted as the start of the sort string¶

sort -k1.x

To have only unique lines in a file¶

sort file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

Sort output by length of line¶

sortwc () { local L;while read -r L;do builtin printf "${#L}@%s\n" "$L";done|sort -n|sed -u 's/^[^@]*@//'; }

List your MACs address¶

sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address

Sort IP addresses¶

sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 /file/of/ip/addresses

sort monthwise¶

sort -M filename

Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)¶

sort -R

Pick a random line from a file¶

sort -R file.txt | head -1

sort ugly text¶

sort -bdf

Sort dotted quads¶

sort -nt . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4

Sort Apache access.log by date and time¶

sort -s -b -t' ' -k 4.9,4.12n -k 4.5,4.7M -k 4.2,4.3n -k 4.14,4.15n -k 4.17,4.18n -k 4.20,4.21n access.log*

Count unique lines in file sorted by instance count (descending) and alphabetically (ascending)¶

sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -k1nr -k2d

sort a list of comma separated numbers: sort_csn¶

sort_csn () { echo "${1}" | sed -e "s/,/\n/g"| sort -nu | awk '{printf("%s,",$0)} END {printf("\n")}' | sed -e "s/,$//"; }

Sort IPv4 address in order¶

sort -V ~/ip.txt

sort the contents of a text file in place.¶

sort -g -o list.txt{,}

Remove duplicate line in a text file.¶

sort in-file.txt | uniq -u > out-file.txt

sort a csv file according to a particular n th field numerically (quicker than excel)¶

sort -t"," -n -k5 file.csv  # according to the 5th field NUMERICALLY!!

Sort using kth column using : delimiter¶

sort -t: -k 2 names.txt

Unique sort¶

sort namesd.txt | uniq

Last update: August 10, 2022
Created: August 10, 2022