msort: A sophisticated and flexible sort utility¹

Msort sorts files in sophisticated ways. Records may be fixed size, newline-separated blocks, or terminated by any specified character. Key fields may be selected by position, tag, or character range. For each key, distinct exclusions, multigraphs, substitutions, and a sort order may be defined or locale collation rules used. Comparisons may be lexicographic, numeric, numeric string, hybrid, random, by string length, angle, domain name, date, time, month name, or ISO8601 timestamp. Keys may be reversed so as to generate reverse dictionaries. Optional keys are supported. Unicode is supported, including full case-folding. Msort itself has a somewhat complex command line interface, but may be driven by an optional GUI.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://billposer.org/Software/msort.html

Author: Bill Poser <billposer [at] alum [dot] mit [dot] edu>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 8.53

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/ msort-8.53.tar.bz2

T2 source: msort.cache
T2 source: msort.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 5% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.53 MB, 8 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gmp grep icu4c libuninum linux-header make sed sysfiles tar tre utf8proc

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).