sort - is used to sort a file, arranging the records in a particular order.

$ cat file.txt assam tamilnadu chattisgarh delhi gujarat himachal pradesh kerala bihar

To sort arrange the file.txt $ sort file.txt

To Save Output to File $ sort file.txt > sorted.txt

To Check for Sorting in File $ sort -c file.txt

To Sort Multiple Files $ sort file1.txt file2.txt

To Sort in Reverse Order $ sort -r file.txt

To Remove Duplicate Entries $ sort -u file.txt

To Sort by Months $ ls -l > month.txt $ sort -Mk6 month.txt

To Randomly Sort Data $ sort -R sorted.txt

regards, T.Dhanasekar