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Harald Hanche-Olsen schrieb:
> + 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.
> 

thanx!

calling external processes to sort a line seems to me quite a little
overhead.

rainer