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