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temporary files are used.

.It Fl s

Stable sort; maintains the original record order of records that have

and equal key.

an equal key.

This is a non-standard feature, but it is widely accepted and used.

.It Fl T Ar dir , Fl Fl temporary-directory Ns = Ns Ar dir

Store temporary files in the directory

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Sort by general numerical value.

As opposed to

.Fl n ,

this option handles general floating points, which have a much

this option handles general floating points.

permissive format than those allowed by

It has a more

. Fl n ,

permissive format than that allowed by

.Fl n

but it has a significant performance drawback.

.It Fl h, Fl Fl human-numeric-sort, Fl Fl sort=human-numeric

Sort by numerical value, but take into account the SI suffix,

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.Fl t

with the same symbol as the thousand separator or decimal point,

the symbol will be treated as the field separator.

Older behavior was less definite; the symbol was treated as both field

Older behavior was less definite: the symbol was treated as both field

separator and numeric separator, simultaneously.

This environment variable enables the old behavior.

.It Ev LANG

Used as a last resort to determine different kinds of locale-specific

behavior if neither the respective environment variable, nor

behavior if neither the respective environment variable nor

.Ev LC_ALL

are set.

.It Ev LC_ALL

Locale settings that override all of the above locale settings.

Locale settings that override all of the other locale settings.

This environment variable can be used to set all these settings

to the same value at once.

.It Ev LC_COLLATE