SORT-BY-LENGTH(1)

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💖 SORT-BY-LENGTH(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — yes we're in the manual pages, yes it's giving vintage terminal chic, and yes this one is a certified short king of a page. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

sort-by-length — sorts your text so the shortest lines come first, and the lines get longer and longer as you go down. literally a glow-up in ascending order 📏✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sort-by-length

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she takes no arguments, she takes no flags, she just reads and sorts. iconic behavior honestly 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe:

sort-by-length reads text from standard input, sorts its lines in increasing order of length, and writes the result out to standard output. that's the whole job. she's focused. she's employed. she ate. 👑

⚠️ now listen, this part matters: the relative order of lines that have the same length is unspecified. that means if two lines are the same size, bestie, there is no promise about which one shows up first. don't come for her about it, it's literally not defined. 💀

🧚 the cute little sign-off 🧚

this page is brought to you by NCBI, dated 2025-05-26 — she's serving Entrez Direct energy and she's been thriving since that day, fr fr 🫶

now go pipe something into her and watch her sort. slay. periodt. 💖✨🌸🦋

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