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<h1> The <tt>s6-sort</tt> program </h1>

<p>
 s6-sort sorts its input.
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<h2> Interface </h2>

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     s6-sort [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -f ] [ -r ] [ -u ] [ -0 ]
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 <li> s6-sort reads its stdin until EOF </li>
 <li> It sorts all the lines it read alphanumerically </li>
 <li> It prints the sorted lines to stdout and exits 0 </li>
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<h2> Options </h2>

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 <li> <tt>-b</tt>&nbsp;: ignore leading spaces and tabs at the beginning of each
line when sorting </li>
 <li> <tt>-c</tt>&nbsp;: suppresses normal output, just returns 0 if the output
would have been the same as the input and 1 otherwise </li>
 <li> <tt>-f</tt>&nbsp;: ignore case when sorting </li>
 <li> <tt>-r</tt>&nbsp;: reverse sort </li>
 <li> <tt>-u</tt>&nbsp;: suppresses duplicate lines </li>
 <li> <tt>-0</tt>&nbsp;: input and output lines are separated by null characters
instead of newlines </li>
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<h2> Posixness </h2>

<p>
 s6-sort <strong>is not</strong> suitable as a Single Unix
<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html">sort</a>
program.
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