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Sorting Output

Explore how to use the sort command in the command-line interface to organize text output. Learn to sort data alphabetically, numerically, in reverse, or randomly. Understand how to pipe output to sort for flexible text processing and improve command-line efficiency.

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The sort command

The sort command can sort output alphabetically or numerically. Not every program sorts its output, but we can pipe the output to sort when needed.

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