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Old 12-02-2005
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I dont think sed alone has the power to do that.

But couple it along with other tools and it can be done.

The result follows the spacing pattern of the input.

Code:
[~/temp]$ echo "01 B D A C" | sed -e 's/ /\n/g' | sort | tr '\n' ' '
01 A B C D
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