debian man page for psort

PSORT(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PSORT(1)

NAME
       psort - sort primitives in metafile as requested

SYNOPSIS
       psort [ +/-x ][ +/-y ][ +/-X ][ +/-Y ] file ..

DESCRIPTION
       Psort  reads each metafile file in sequence and sorts primitives between globals according to the option specification.	Lower case options
       mean the corresponding minimum, upper case indicates the maximum value.	A '+' before the option means sort in order of increasing  values,
       '-'  means  decreasing.	The order the options appear on the command line is the order in which the extrema are examined.  For example, the
       options -Y +x would mean "sort on decreasing ymax, then increasing xmin values".

       If no input files are specified, the standard input is read.

EXAMPLE
       To sort the file "meta" in order of increasing xmax, then decreasing ymin:

	 psort +X -y meta

FILES
       /tmp/psXXXXa /tmp/psXXXXb

BUGS
       Aborting the program will sometimes leave files in /tmp.

AUTHOR
       Greg Ward

SEE ALSO
       metafile(5), pexpand(1)

RADIANCE
							      6/24/98								  PSORT(1)