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| psort - sort primitives in metafile as requested |
| psort [ +/-x ][ +/-y ][ +/-X ][ +/-Y ] file .. |
| 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. |
| To sort the file "meta" in order of increasing xmax, then decreasing ymin: |
| psort +X -y meta |
| /usr/tmp/psXXXXa /usr/tmp/psXXXXb |
| Aborting the program will sometimes leave files in /usr/tmp. |
| Greg Ward |
| metafile(5), pexpand(1) |