Re: how to sort words in a line

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>:

| Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
|> I just couldn't find a fast solution to sort a line of words:
|>
|> zzz aaa hhhh
|>
|> -->
|>
|> aaa hhhh zzz
|>
|>
|> Did I miss a simple command?
|
| AFAIK, no.
|
| But it's rather simple a command to write:

You could also pipe the line through the command

  tr ' ' \n | sort | tr \n ' '

or variations thereof, depending on your shell's ability to interpret
escape sequences like \n.

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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