From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to sort words in a line
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:46:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcoabtvcfch.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r6n7l41m.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com
+ 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.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 10:01 how to sort words in a line Rainer Stengele
2007-07-17 10:26 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-07-17 13:46 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2007-07-17 17:54 ` Rainer Stengele
2007-07-17 20:12 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-07-17 17:57 ` Rainer Stengele
2007-07-17 18:07 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-07-17 18:20 ` Rainer Stengele
2007-07-17 19:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-07-17 22:43 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-07-18 7:21 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-18 19:25 ` Rainer Stengele
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