NAME

csort —

sort lines of text files in the C locale

SYNOPSIS

csort [options...] [files...]

DESCRIPTION

The csort utility is merely a shorthand for “env LC_COLLATE=C sort” to sort lines of text from standard input or from a set of files using the sort and collation rules specified by the “C” POSIX locale. It passes all command-line arguments to sort(1).

RETURN VALUES

See sort(1).

ENVIRONMENT

See sort(1).

FILES

See sort(1).

EXAMPLES

Sort the output of ls(1) by size:

ls -l | csort -k5,5n

Sort a set of files in reverse:

csort -r *.txt

HISTORY

The csort utility was written by Peter Pentchev in 2013.

AUTHORS

Peter Penchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩