aki-resort

aki-resort sort lines of text.

Features

aki-resort sort lines of text. You can use regex to specify the KEY.

• command help

aki-resort --help

Usage:
  aki-resort [options]

sort lines of text.

Ordering options:
  -r, --reverse                 reverse the result of comparisons
      --according-to <word>     sort according to WORD: string, numeric, month, version

Other options:
  -e, --regex <exp>             regular expression. sort via this match point.
  -k, --key <keydef>            sort via a key. keydef gives location.
      --field-separator <sep>   use <sep> instead of non-blank to blank transition
  -u, --unique                  output only the first line of an equal.
      --max-buffer <size>       max buffer size. if reading size is more than <size>, then it not output, quit and display error message.

  -H, --help     display this help and exit
  -V, --version  display version information and exit

• minimum support rustc 1.38.0

Quick install

1. you can install this into cargo bin path:

cargo install aki-resort

2. you can build debian package:

cargo deb

and install .deb into your local repository of debian package.

Examples

The input data used in this example looks like this:

cat file1.txt

result output:

ABCDEFG:33:abc
OPQRSTU:222:opq
VWXYZ:4:vwx
HIJKLMN:1111:hij

Example 1: simple sort

This sort via utf-8 code.

command line:

cat file1.txt | aki-resort

result output:

ABCDEFG:33:abc
HIJKLMN:1111:hij
OPQRSTU:222:opq
VWXYZ:4:vwx

Example 2: numeric sort

This sort via 1st chunk of numeric character according to numeric.

command line:

cat file1.txt | aki-resort -e "[0-9]+" --according-to numeric

result output:

VWXYZ:4:vwx
ABCDEFG:33:abc
OPQRSTU:222:opq
HIJKLMN:1111:hij

Library example

See fn execute() for this library examples.