sort: add output file example (#5040)

2021-01-04 15:52:10 +01:00
parent 5818cc16b2
commit 152ee9b622
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--- a/pages/common/sort.md
+++ b/pages/common/sort.md
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@

 `sort -u {{path/to/file}}`

- Sort human-readable numbers (in this case the 5th field of `ls -lh`):
+- Sort a file, printing the output to the specified output file (can be used to sort a file in-place):

-`ls -lh | sort -h -k 5`
+`sort --output={{path/to/file}} {{path/to/file}}`

 - Sort numbers with exponents: