Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi
Im looking for a way, hopefully a one-liner to sort words in a line

e.g

"these are the words in a line"
to
"a are in line the these words"

Thanks!

perl -e '{$_="these are the words in a line"; s/(.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*)/$6 $2 $5 $7 $3 $1 $4/; print}'

Code:

> echo "these are the words in a line" | tr " " "\n" | sort | tr "\n" " " ;echo
a are in line the these words

That last echo command is to simply force a new line.

nice one. although my line will have more than 9 terms, seperated by commas

e.g
csoTopic=Topics: Artists Exact Match, queryTerm=new kids on the block, defaultDisplayName=New Kids On The Block, topic=vid
eos, artistName=New Kids On The Block, weight=50,

I think Im gonna have to go down the road of splitting them in a temp file , ordering them, and joining them up again.


edited... this was in response to jimmy_y's fine perl skills.

echo "these are the words in a line"|awk -F- '{print $6 $2 $5 $7 $3 $1 $4}'

echo "these are the words in a line"|sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\) \(.*\) \(.*\) \(.*\) \(.*\) \(.*\)/\6 \2 \5 \7 \3 \1 \4/g'

from
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...-one-line.html

I thought the OP wanted to sort the fields - not simply manually rearrange them!

Did not realize he wants to sort instead of manual arrange.