sort-by for filters

Sort by the given columns, in increasing order.

Signature

> sort-by ...rest --reverse --ignore-case --natural

Parameters

• ...rest: the column(s) to sort by
• --reverse (-r): Sort in reverse order
• --ignore-case (-i): Sort string-based columns case-insensitively
• --natural (-n): Sort alphanumeric string-based columns naturally (1, 9, 10, 99, 100, ...)

Input/output types:

input	output
list<any>	list<any>
table	table

Examples

Sort files by modified date

> ls | sort-by modified

Sort files by name (case-insensitive)

> ls | sort-by name -i

Sort a table by a column (reversed order)

> [[fruit count]; [apple 9] [pear 3] [orange 7]] | sort-by fruit -r
╭───┬────────┬───────╮
│ # │ fruit  │ count │
├───┼────────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ pear   │     3 │
│ 1 │ orange │     7 │
│ 2 │ apple  │     9 │
╰───┴────────┴───────╯