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lbmk/util/sbase/sort.1
Leah Rowe e9a910b33c config/git: import suckless sbase
i currently use the output of sha512sum in several
places of xbmk, which is a bit unreliable in case
output changes.

other cases where i use util outputs in variables
are probably reliable, because i'm using mostly
posix utilities in those.

to mitigate this, i now import suckless sbase, which
has a reasonable sha512sum implementation.

*every* binary it builds is being placed in build.list,
because i'll probably start using more of them.

for example, i may start modifying the "date"
implementation, adding the GNU-specific options that
i need as mentioned on init.sh

i'm importing it in util/ because the sha512sum
util is needed for verifying project sources, so
if sbase itself is a "project source", that means
we can into a chicken and egg bootstrapping problem.

this is sbase at revision:
055cc1ae1b3a13c3d8f25af0a4a3316590efcd48

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
2025-10-04 09:20:12 +01:00

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.Dd February 17, 2016
.Dt SORT 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm sort
.Nd sort lines
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl Cbcdfimnru
.Op Fl o Ar outfile
.Op Fl t Ar delim
.Op Fl k Ar key ...
.Op Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
writes the sorted concatenation of each
.Ar file
to stdout.
If no
.Ar file
is given
.Nm
reads from stdin.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl C
Check that the concatenation of the given
.Ar files
is sorted rather than sorting them.
In this mode, no output is printed to stdout, and the exit status
indicates the result of the check.
.It Fl b
Skip leading whitespace of columns when sorting.
.It Fl c
The same as
.Fl C
except that when disorder is detected, a message is written to stderr
indicating the location of the disorder.
.It Fl d
Skip non-whitespace and non-alphanumeric characters.
.It Fl f
Ignore letter case when sorting.
.It Fl i
Skip non-printable characters.
.It Fl k Ar key
Specify a key definition of the form
.Sm off
.Sy S
.No [.
.Sy s
.No ][
.Sy f
.No ][ ,
.Sy E
.No [.
.Sy e
.No ][
.Sy f
.No ]]
.Sm on
where
.Sy S , s , E
and
.Sy e
are the starting column, starting character in that column, ending column and
the ending character of that column respectively.
If they are not specified,
.Sy s
refers to the first character of the specified starting column,
.Sy E
refers to the last column of every line, and
.Sy e
refers to the last character of the ending column.
.Sy f
can be used to specify options
.Sy ( n , b )
that only apply to this key definition.
.Sy b
is special in that it only applies to the column that it was specified after.
.It Fl m
Assume sorted input, merge only.
.It Fl n
Perform a numeric sort.
.It Fl o Ar outfile
Write output to
.Ar outfile
rather than stdout.
.It Fl r
Reverses the sort.
.It Fl t Ar delim
Set
.Ar delim
as the field delimiter.
.It Fl u
Print equal lines only once.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2013.