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tsort

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 1 Feb 1995
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NAME

tsort - topological sort  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ccs/bin/tsort [file]  

DESCRIPTION

The tsort command produces on the standard output a totally ordered list of items consistent with a partial ordering of items mentioned in the input file.

The input consists of pairs of items (nonempty strings) separated by blanks. Pairs of different items indicate ordering. Pairs of identical items indicate presence, but not ordering.  

OPERANDS

The following operand is supported:

file A path name of a text file to order. If no file operand is given, the standard input is used.

 

EXAMPLES

Example 1: An example of the tsort command

The command:

example% tsort <<EOF
a b c c d e
g g
f g e f
EOF

produces the output:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
 

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tsort: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.  

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0 Successful completion.

>0 An error occurred.

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWbtool
Interface StabilityStandard

 

SEE ALSO

lorder(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)  

DIAGNOSTICS

Odd data: there are an odd number of fields in the input file.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPERANDS
EXAMPLES
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EXIT STATUS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS

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