---
name: "mblaze-sort"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mblaze"
version: "1.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mblaze-sort"
---

# mblaze-sort(1)

sort messages

## NAME

**msort** – sort messages

## SYNOPSIS

**msort** \[**-r**\] \[**-f** \| **-d** \| **-s** \| **-F** \| **-M** \| **-S** \| **-U** \| **-I**\] \[*msgs ...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**msort** sorts messages according to various orders, and prints, separated by newlines, the resulting message names.( See [mmsg(7)](/mmsg/7.md) for the message argument syntax.)

If no messages are specified, **msort** will read filenames from the standard input, or use the default sequence if used interactively.

The options are as follows:

- **-r**

  Reverse order.

- **-f**

  Sort by ‘From:’.

- **-d**

  Sort by date.

- **-s**

  Sort by ‘Subject:’ (modulo various variants of ‘Re:’).

- **-F**

  Sort by filename, using proper order for numbers in filenames.

- **-M**

  Sort by message file modification time.

- **-S**

  Sort by message file size.

- **-U**

  Sort unread messages after read messages.

- **-I**

  Sort flagged messages before unflagged messages.

## EXIT STATUS

The **msort** utility exits 0 on success, and \>0 if an error occurs.

## SEE ALSO

[mmsg(7)](/mmsg/7.md)

## AUTHORS

Leah Neukirchen ⟨*leah@vuxu.org*⟩

## LICENSE

**msort** is in the public domain.

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

**http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/**