Sort a filestep 1 of 4 · beginner

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By the end of this lesson you can

Order lines alphabetically and in reverse with sort and sort -r
Understand why uniq needs sorted input
Reduce a column to distinct values with sort | uniq
Surface repeated values with uniq -d

Before you startExtracting a column with cut, and the pipe |.

Plain sort orders lines alphabetically. Let's sort a gene list.

Sort the genes on chromosome 3 alphabetically.

workspace · terminal

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workspace/shared/data0 files

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