From 152ee9b622b192cb151217ce3684c05ff898947f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20W=C3=BCnsche?=
 <42999314+thomaswuensche@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:52:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sort: add output file example (#5040)

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 pages/common/sort.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pages/common/sort.md b/pages/common/sort.md
index d88ff15fee..5fdc561e13 100644
--- a/pages/common/sort.md
+++ b/pages/common/sort.md
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
 
 `sort -u {{path/to/file}}`
 
-- Sort human-readable numbers (in this case the 5th field of `ls -lh`):
+- Sort a file, printing the output to the specified output file (can be used to sort a file in-place):
 
-`ls -lh | sort -h -k 5`
+`sort --output={{path/to/file}} {{path/to/file}}`
 
 - Sort numbers with exponents: