pastel-sort-by(1)

💖 pastel-sort-by — like, the sorting one, bestie 💖

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual for pastel-sort-by(1) — yes, the manual name is literally pastel-sort-by and the command lives at pastel sort-by, iykyk. It sorts your colors. That's it. That's the whole vibe. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pastel-sort-by — Sort colors by the given property 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pastel sort-by [-r|--reverse] [-u|--unique] [-h|--help] [sort-order]
[color]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Sort a list of colors by the given property. literally that's the whole thing, no cap.

Example:

pastel random -n 20 | pastel sort-by hue | pastel format hex

the way that pipeline just eats?? 20 random colors in, sorted by hue, hex out. iconic behavior fr fr. 🍓

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -r, --reverse — Reverse the sort order 🔄 so the thing you sorted by... goes the other way. genius, honestly.
• -u, --unique — Remove duplicate colors (equality is determined via RGB values) 🙈 note bestie: it's checking the RGB values to decide if two colors are the same. that's the tea.
• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with -h) 💜
• [sort-order] — default: hue — the sort order. possible values, one per bullet, no skips:
  • brightness
  • luminance
  • hue
  • chroma
  • random
• [color] — 🎨 Colors can be specified in many different formats, such as #RRGGBB, RRGGBB, #RGB, 'rgb(…, …, …)', 'hsl(…, …, …)', 'gray(…)' or simply by the name of the color.

The identifier - can be used to read a single color from standard input. 👑

Also, the special identifier pick can be used to run an external color picker to choose a color. 🧚

If no color argument is specified, colors will be read from standard input. no args? stdin it is. she's flexible like that.

Examples (all of these specify the same color):

- lightslategray
- '#778899'
- 778899
- 789
- 'rgb(119, 136, 153)'
- '119,136,153'
- 'hsl(210, 14.3%, 53.3%)'

Alpha transparency is also supported: 💫

- '#77889980'
- 'rgba(119, 136, 153, 0.5)'
- 'hsla(210, 14.3%, 53.3%, 50%)'

🫶 rememebr bestie: seven different ways to say the exact same color and every single one of them slays. pick your fighter.

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and that's the page!! this one's signed off as sort-by in the pastel-sort-by(1) corner of the manual, so when you're scrolling and you see that little tag at the bottom, that's me, that's us. mwah. 💋 🌈⭐