yq/pkg/yqlib/doc/headers/sort-keys.md

# Sort Keys

The Sort Keys operator sorts maps by their keys (based on their string value). This operator does not do anything to arrays or scalars (so you can easily recursively apply it to all maps).

Sort is particularly useful for diffing two different yaml documents:

```bash
yq eval -i 'sortKeys(..)' file1.yml
yq eval -i 'sortKeys(..)' file2.yml
diff file1.yml file2.yml
```
Update document generation script 2021-11-03 04:00:58 +00:00			`# Sort Keys`

Added sort keys operator 2020-12-01 04:06:54 +00:00			`The Sort Keys operator sorts maps by their keys (based on their string value). This operator does not do anything to arrays or scalars (so you can easily recursively apply it to all maps).`

			`Sort is particularly useful for diffing two different yaml documents:`

			```bash
			`yq eval -i 'sortKeys(..)' file1.yml`
			`yq eval -i 'sortKeys(..)' file2.yml`
			`diff file1.yml file2.yml`
			```