SORTUCS4.1.EN(1)

NAME
sortucs4.1.en

= sortucs4(1) - UTF-8 text and table sorting utility :doctype: manpage :author: Alexander Artyomov :date: 2024

== NAME sortucs4 - utility for sorting UTF-8 text files and tables

== SYNOPSIS sortucs4 [file [column [delimiter]]]

== DESCRIPTION The sortucs4 utility performs sorting of UTF-8 text files with full Unicode support. Can work with both plain text and tabular data.

Features:

•   Full UTF-8 and multibyte characters support

•   Unicode-aware sorting

•   Tabular data processing with custom delimiters

•   In-place file sorting (overwrites input file)

== PARAMETERS file:: Input file to sort (required)

column:: Column number to sort by (1-based)

delimiter:: Field delimiter character (default is tab)

== EXAMPLES Sort text file:: sortucs4 textfile.txt

Sort table by 2nd column:: sortucs4 data.csv 2

Sort CSV by 3rd column with comma delimiter:: sortucs4 data.csv 3 ,

== AUTHORS Written by Alexander Artyomov with code generated by AI (DeepSeek Chat).

== LICENSE AGPLv3+: GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or later. Full license text available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html.