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NAME

sortsub - Sort lines of text using Sort::Sub routines

VERSION

This document describes version 0.045 of sortsub (from Perl distribution App-subsort), released on 2020-02-28.

SYNOPSIS

 % subsort [OPTIONS] <ROUTINE> [FILE]...

Examples:

 % subsort naturally data.txt
 % subsort naturally -r data.txt
 % subsort 'naturally<r>' data.txt
 % some-cmd | subsort by_several -A first='by_length<r>' -A second=numerically data.txt

Some other examples:

 # like Unix's tac
 % subsort record-by-reverse-order data.txt

To list all available routines:

 % subsort -l

DESCRIPTION

This program is like the Unix command sort, but it uses routines from Sort::Sub.

OPTIONS

  --help, -h         Show this help message and exit.
  --version, -v      Show version and exit.
  --list, -l         List available Sort::Sub routines.
  --ignore-case, -f  Do a case-insensitive sort.
  --reverse, -r      Do a reverse sort.
  --arg=s, -A        Argument to pass to sorter. In the form of name=val. Can
                       be specified multiple times.

COMPLETION

This script has shell tab completion capability with support for several shells.

bash

To activate bash completion for this script, put:

 complete -C sortsub sortsub

in your bash startup (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is recommended, however, that you install modules using cpanm-shcompgen which can activate shell completion for scripts immediately.

tcsh

To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:

 complete sortsub 'p/*/`sortsub`/'

in your tcsh startup (e.g. ~/.tcshrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.

It is also recommended to install shcompgen (see above).

other shells

For fish and zsh, install shcompgen as described above.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-subsort.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-subsort.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-subsort

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

The sort Unix command.

App::psort

Sort::Sub, which also provides sorting functionality to various other CLI's e.g. sorted (from App::sorted)).

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.