CSSORT(1p)

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CSSORT(1p) 💅✨

okay bestie, so this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for cssort — she's a perl script, she's iconic, and she's about to sort ur Czech text like a queen 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

cssort — Czech sort, periodt 🇨🇿✨

🎀 FORMAT 🎀

cssort [ "-c"list | "-f"list ["-d"regexp]] [files ...]

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

like, literally here's how u'd actually use her:

cssort -c10-15,50-,25-45 < file
cssort -f3,5-6 < file
cssort -f3,5-6 -s: < file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so cssort is this utility that sorts ur input lines using the rules that the Czech language actually uses — not the boring default byte order, the real vibes 🔥 Run her with zero options and she just takes the whole line and sorts on that, simple as. But when u pass the options, u can tell her exactly which parts of each line she should be comparing 👑

list

a comma-separated list of integer field numbers or field ranges, no cap. The fields are indexed from 1 — we do not do zero-indexing in this house 🙅‍♀️ — and if a range is open (like 5-), that means all the remaining fields from the starting number onwards. She said "and everything after that too, girl" 💖

OPTIONS

  • -c — stands for columns, and the list that comes after it specifies byte ranges on the line. You'll probably reach for this one when ur sorting data with fixed width fields — the classic spreadsheet-export situation, iykyk 📊
  • -f — the fields that are gonna be used for the sort. field mode, bestie 🌾
  • -d — the delimiter that separates fields when ur using the -f option. Heads up: this is a Perl regular expression, not just a plain character. The default is "[ \t]+", which means any number of spaces or tabs in a row — she's flexible like that 💅
lowkey important: the program assumes ISO-8859-2 encoding. Some way to specify another input encoding will come in the next versions (so like, not yet, bestie 😭). If u need to sort files with different encodings, u might wanna check out the cstocs conversion utility — she's the girl for that job 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Cz::Sort(3), cstocs(1).

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jan Pazdziora

and that's the whole page, bestie — no notes, she ate 💅✨

this was brought to u by perl v5.30.0 and dated 2019-10-05 — mwah, take care, slay ur sorts 🎀🦋💖

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