sortman(1)
🎀 sortman(1) 🎀
okay so this is sortman(1), coming at you from the General Commands Manual. bestie, its whole main-character job is sorting manual-page path names, and it does exactly that. 💅
🌸 NAME 🌸
sortman — sort manual-page path names ✨
✨ SYNOPSIS ✨
the synopsis is literally just the command, no extra flags shown here:
sortman💖 DESCRIPTION 💖
the sortman command sorts manual-page path names into the order they should appear in the manual. yes, that is the assignment, and it ate. 🔥
first up, the chapters and subchapters get sorted. then, inside each (sub)chapter, the very first page is the matching intro(*) page, and everything after that is sorted alphabetically — but some special characters get treated specially. no cap, that's the whole sorting situation. 🦋
🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋
🫶 that's the whole page, bestie. this sortman(1) moment is from Linux man-pages 6.18, dated 2025-05-17. mwah 💋
📦 where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: man-pages 6.18-r0 · GPL-2.0-or-later
- nixos 26.05: man-pages 6.18
- 📜 the page's license: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
- 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms