SORT--Examples
 
The following command reads the file EXPENSES.TXT, sorts it in reverse
order, and displays it on your screen:
 
    sort /r < expenses.txt
 
Suppose you want to search a large file named MAILLST.TXT for the text
"Jones", and suppose you want to sort the results of the search. To do this,
use the pipe (|) to direct the output of a FIND command to the SORT command,
as shown in the following example:
 
    find "jones" maillst.txt | sort
 
The command produces a sorted list of lines that contain the specified
text.
 
:m570
To sort keyboard input and display the results alphabetically on the screen,
you can first use the SORT command with no parameters, as the following
example shows:
 
    SORT
 
Then type the text you want sorted, pressing ENTER at the end of each line.
When you have finished typing text, press CTRL+Z, and then press ENTER. The
SORT command displays the text you typed, sorted alphabetically. You could
also redirect sorted keyboard input to a file.