Operating on sorted files - GNU Coreutils

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7 Operating on sorted files

These commands work with (or produce) sorted files.

sort invocation: Sort text files.
shuf invocation: Shuffle text files.
uniq invocation: Uniquify files.
comm invocation: Compare two sorted files line by line.
ptx invocation: Produce a permuted index of file contents.
tsort invocation: Topological sort.
tsort background: Where tsort came from.