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Vim's default sort is case sensitive, and produces results like this:
A
B
a
How can it be made case-insensitive, to produce the following result given the same input?
A
a
B
sampablokuper
Posted 2014-08-07T13:30:04.120
Reputation: 2 389
Case insensitive sorting
Answers
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Vim's own :sort command
:%sort i
does what you want.
See :help :sort.
Alternatively, you can also use your system's sort command as a filter:
:%!sort -f
See :help filter in Vim and $ man sort in your shell.
romainl
Posted 2014-08-07T13:30:04.120
Reputation: 19 227
What's different between :%sort i and :sort i? – Deqing – 2018-07-05T05:16:39.927
1No fundamental difference. The former is explicit about the range on which it operates on while the latter is implicit. – romainl – 2018-07-05T08:03:46.033
what about to use
sort -feventually redirecting output to a new filesort -f old_file > new_file? – Hastur – 2014-08-07T13:32:21.423I assume you mean case sensitive in the first one? – FDinoff – 2014-08-07T23:40:18.943
@FDinoff, yep, thanks for reporting the typo :) – sampablokuper – 2014-08-10T00:23:46.853