Use of Sort:
Note what happens with some options:
host ls -l | sort + 4
total 25
3 -rw------- 1 ths 2238 Jan 29 1992 login.matrix
4 -rw------- 1 ths 3156 Mar 27 1992 file.mat
4 -rw------- 1 ths 3187 Mar 20 1992 mail.mat
7 -rw------- 1 ths 6280 Nov 26 1991 login.bak
7 -rw------- 1 ths 6497 Jan 17 1992 logmatrix.bak