SORTBYQUOTE(1)

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💖 SORTBYQUOTE(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is sortbyquote, and it lives in the NCBI Tools User's Manual — like, that's the whole vibe of the collection it's from. pull up a chair, we're sorting some code 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

sortbyquote — sort C/C++ code by quoted regions 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sortbyquote [-] [-i filename] [-o filename] [-r]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so sortbyquote is literally just a simple little utility that takes a C or C++ code snippet and sorts it, so that the lines — which are typically elements of a static array, the kind you'd use for a binary search — end up in case-insensitive order of the string literals they contain. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap, it's giving one-trick pony and honestly? obsessed. 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the rundown of every option, bestie, no skipping any of them:

  • - — print the usage message. yes, a lone dash. iconic behaviour honestly ✨
  • -i filename — Input File Name (default = stdin) 📥
  • -o filename — Output File Name (default = stdout) 📤
  • -r — Reverse order 🔄

💀 BUGS 💀

Escape sequences are not supported. that's it, that's the caveat, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 😭

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. thank you for your service, kings and queens 👑

and that's the whole page, fr fr — this beauty comes from the NCBI, dated 2006-01-11, and it was SORTBYQUOTE(1) the entire time 💜 slay, bye bestie 🦋✨

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