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Commands

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snice

snice [priority] [options] processes

Reset the priority for processes. The default priority is +4. See skill

for the possible options.

sort

sort [options] [files]

Sort the lines of the named files. Compare specified fields for each

pair of lines; if no fields are specified, compare them by byte, in

machine-collating sequence. If no files are specified or if the file is -,

the input is taken from standard input. See also uniq, comm, and

join.

Options

-b, --ignore-leading-blanks

Ignore leading spaces and tabs.

-c, --check

Check whether files are already sorted and, if so, produce no

output.

-d, --dictionary-order

Sort in dictionary order.

-f, --ignore-case

Fold; ignore uppercase/lowercase differences.

-g, --general-numeric-sort

Sort in general numeric order.

--help

Print a help message and then exit.

-i, --ignore-nonprinting

Ignore nonprinting characters (those outside ASCII range

040–176).

-k n[,m], --key=n[,m]

Skip n-1 fields and stop at m-1 fields (i.e., start sorting at the

nth field, where the fields are numbered beginning with 1).

-n Sort in arithmetic order.

-ofile, --output=file

Put output in file.

-m, --merge

Merge already sorted input files.

-r, --reverse

Reverse the order of the sort.

-s, --stable

Stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison.

-tc, --field-separator ...