S6-SORT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to s6-sort(1) from the General Commands Manual — this is the page for sorting input, and it's lowkey iconic 💅✨

The name line is literally s6-sort — sort input 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s6-sort [-b] [-c] [-f] [-r] [-u] [-0]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so s6-sort reads its stdin until EOF. it sorts all the lines it read alphanumerically — no cap, that's the whole vibe 🦋

Then it prints the sorted lines to stdout and exits 0. periodt 💖

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

vibe check each flag, bestie — they're all right here:

• -b — ignore leading spaces and tabs at the beginning of each line when sorting 💅
• -c — suppresses normal output, just returns 0 if the output would have been the same as the input and 1 otherwise 👑
• -f — ignore case when sorting 🌸
• -r — reverse sort 🔥
• -u — suppresses duplicate lines ✨
• -0 — input and output lines are separated by null characters instead of newlines 🫶

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

the exit codes are giving very specific main character energy:

• 111 — temporary error 😭
• 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse 💀
• 127 — unable to execute program - not found 🙈
• 126 — unable to execute program - other reason 🍓

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole s6 squad is here, bestie — every single reference, no skips:

• s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1)
• s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1)
• s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1)
• s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1)
• s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1)
• s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

there's also a footnote [1] pointing at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/sort.html — and heads up, bestie: this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-sort.html 🫶

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🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

real talk: s6-sort is not suitable as a sort[1] program conforming to . 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — it comes from Debian, dated April 17, 2022, and the page itself is S6-SORT(1) 💜✨