SORTERR(1)

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✨ SORTERR(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the sorterr page from the Survex manual 💖 this little icon re-sorts your .err file and honestly? she eats.

🌸 NAME 🌸

sorterr — re-sort a .err file by various criteria 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sorterr [OPTIONS] ERR_FILE [HOW_MANY]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so sorterr takes a .err file and re-sorts it by whichever criterion you asked for — or, if you didn't ask for one, by the error ratio, which is the default. main character behaviour fr fr.

where does the output go? to stdout bestie ✨ unless you pass --replace (short option -r), in which case the input file gets replaced with the sorted version. no cap, she'll literally overwrite it 💀

by default every single entry in the file is included, okay? but if you hand her a second parameter, then only the top HOW_MANY entries after sorting come back. it's giving "just the highlights" 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --horizontal — sort by horizontal error factor 📐
  • -v, --vertical — sort by vertical error factor 📏
  • -p, --percentage — sort by percentage error 💯
  • -l, --per-leg — sort by error per leg 🦵
  • -r, --replace — replace the .err file with the re-sorted version 🔁 (she's committing to it, no take-backs)
  • --help — display short help and exit 🆘
  • --version — output version information and exit 🏷️

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

aven(1), cavern(1), diffpos(1), dump3d(1), extend(1), survexport(1) — go read the whole friend group bestie, they're all iconic 🫶

1998-2025

and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 this was Survex, sorterr(1), dated Jun 23, 2026 — tysm for reading, go sort something gorgeous, mwah 🎀✨🦋

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