supersort is a modern replacement for sort.
README Sections: Options — Installation — Development
supersort is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program sort that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults.
It uses provides various sorting algorithms like insertion sort, bubble sort, and selection sort.
And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.
By deliberately making some decisions differently, supersort attempts to be a more featureful, more user-friendly version of sort.
For more information, see supersort’s website.
- run : run various sorting algorithms
- bench: benchmark various sorting algorithms
supersort is available for macOS and Linux.
Use nix to install the supersort package from the tinypkgs repository.
nix profile install github:tiny-technologies/tinypkgs#supersort
Compiled binary versions of supersort are uploaded to GitHub when a release is made.
You can install supersort manually by downloading a release, extracting it, and copying the binary to a directory in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin.
Compiling supersort is easy, simply run:
git clone https://github.com/tiny-technologies/supersort
cd supersort
make