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 (non-empty 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: