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+const completionSpec: Fig.Spec = {
+  name: "sort",
+  description: "Sort or merge records (lines) of text and binary files",
+  args: {
+    name: "file",
+    isVariadic: true,
+    template: "filepaths",
+  },
+  options: [
+    {
+      name: "--help",
+      description: "Shows help message",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--version",
+      description: "Displays the current version of sort",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-c", "--check", "-C"],
+      args: {
+        name: "output",
+        isOptional: true,
+        suggestions: ["silent", "quiet"],
+        description: "Suppress errors on false check",
+      },
+      description: "Check that the single input file is sorted",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-m", "--merge"],
+      description:
+        "Merge only.  The input files are assumed to be pre-sorted.  If they are not sorted the output order is undefined",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-o", "--output"],
+      description:
+        "Print the output to the output file instead of the standard output",
+      args: {
+        name: "output",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-S", "--buffer-size"],
+      description: "Use size for the maximum size of the memory buffer",
+      args: {
+        name: "size",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-T", "--temporary-directory"],
+      description: "Store temporary files in the directory dir",
+      args: {
+        name: "dir",
+        template: "folders",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-u", "--unique"],
+      description:
+        "Unique keys. Suppress all lines that have a key that is equal to an already processed one",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "-s",
+      description:
+        "Stable sort. This option maintains the original record order of records that have an equal key",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-b", "--ignore-leading-blanks"],
+      description: "Ignore leading blank characters when comparing lines",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-d", "--dictionary-order"],
+      description:
+        "Consider only blank spaces and alphanumeric characters in comparisons",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-f", "--ignore-case"],
+      description:
+        "Convert all lowercase characters to their upper case equivalent before comparison",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-g", "--general-numeric-sort"],
+      description: "Sort by general numerical value",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-h", "--human-numeric-sort"],
+      description:
+        "Sort by numerical value, but take into account the SI suffix, if present",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-i", "--ignore-nonprinting"],
+      description: "Ignore all non-printable characters",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-M", "--month-sort"],
+      description:
+        "Sort by month abbreviations.  Unknown strings are considered smaller than the month names",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-n", "--numeric-sort"],
+      description: "Sort fields numerically by arithmetic value",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-R", "--random-sort"],
+      description: "Sort by a random order",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-r", "--reverse"],
+      description: "Sort in reverse order",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-V", "--version-sort"],
+      description: "Sort version numbers",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-k", "--key"],
+      args: [
+        {
+          name: "field1",
+        },
+        {
+          name: "field2",
+          isOptional: true,
+        },
+      ],
+      description:
+        "Define a restricted sort key that has the starting position field1, and optional ending position field2",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-t", "--field-separator"],
+      args: {
+        name: "char",
+      },
+      description: "Use char as a field separator character",
+    },
+    {
+      name: ["-z", "--zero-terminated"],
+      description: "Use NUL as record separator",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--batch-size",
+      args: {
+        name: "num",
+      },
+      description:
+        "Specify maximum number of files that can be opened by sort at once",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--compress-program",
+      args: {
+        name: "PROGRAM",
+        template: "filepaths",
+      },
+      description: "Use PROGRAM to compress temporary files (eg. bzip2)",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--random-source",
+      args: {
+        name: "filename",
+        template: "filepaths",
+      },
+      description:
+        "In random sort, the file content is used as the source of the 'seed' data for the hash function choice",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--debug",
+      description:
+        "Print some extra information about the sorting process to the standard output",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--parallel",
+      description:
+        "Set the maximum number of execution threads.  Default number equals to the number of CPUs",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--files0-from",
+      args: {
+        name: "filename",
+        template: "filepaths",
+      },
+      description: "Take the input file list from the file filename",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--radixsort",
+      description: "Try to use radix sort, if the sort specifications allow",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--mergesort",
+      description:
+        "Use mergesort.  This is a universal algorithm that can always be used, but it is not always the fastest",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--qsort",
+      description:
+        "Try to use quick sort, if the sort specifications allow.  This sort algorithm cannot be used with -u and -s",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--heapsort",
+      description:
+        "Try to use heap sort, if the sort specifications allow.  This sort algorithm cannot be used with -u and -s",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--mmap",
+      description:
+        "Try to use file memory mapping system call.  It may increase speed in some cases",
+    },
+    {
+      name: "--sort",
+      args: {
+        name: "type",
+        suggestions: [
+          "general-numeric",
+          "human-numeric",
+          "month",
+          "numeric",
+          "random",
+        ],
+      },
+      description: "Select how to sort values",
+    },
+  ],
+};
+
+export default completionSpec;