Is there a Linux utility or a Bash command I can use to sort a space delimited string of numbers?
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Is there a Linux utility or a Bash command I can use to sort a space delimited string of numbers?
Here’s a simple example to get you going:
echo "81 4 6 12 3 0" | tr " " "\n" | sort -gtrtranslates the spaces delimiting the numbers, into carriage returns, because sort uses carriage returns as delimiters (ie it is for sorting lines of text). The-goption tells sort to sort by “general numerical value”.man sortfor further details aboutsort.