Sorting your data with msort

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 19, 2008 7:51 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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msort is a tool for sorting text files. With both a command-line and graphical interface, it allows you to pick out where your sort keys are in a file and lets you select how to order those keys in a number of ways. Compared with the GNU sort program that is installed on most Linux systems, msort offers more flexibility in defining where your sort keys are and how to order them, as well as great internationalization support with full support for UTF-8, the ability to sort a file using different locales for different sort keys, and support for numbers in non-Western number systems.

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