From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 8 10:25:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02369 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02350 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA08541; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:22:59 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199901081822.KAA08541@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: ksmm@threespace.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:01:03 -0500 (EST) >From: The Classiest Man Alive >On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, K. Marsh wrote: >: cat phonelist.txt | sort >: cat phonelist.txt | sort | more >Doesn't sort take a filename as an argument, so that these examples could >just start with > sort phonelist.txt >instead? pau-amma[1] man sort SORT(1) SORT(1) NAME sort - sort lines of text files SYNOPSIS sort [-cmus] [-t separator] [-o output-file] [-T tempdir] [-bdfiMnr] [+POS1 [-POS2]] [-k POS1[,POS2]] [file...] sort {--help,--version} .... Yes. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message