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Old 02-09-2008
H2OBoodle H2OBoodle is offline
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Sort a file line by line alphabetically

infile:
z y x
c b a

desired output:
x y z
a b c

I don't want to sort the lines into this:
a b c
x y z

nor this:
c b a
z y x

The number of fields per line and number of lines is indeterminate. The field separator is always a space.

Thanks for the use of your collective brains.