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# 1  
Old 09-24-2011
string sorting in unix
Hi I need how to sort string characters

for Example i have a file that contains this data
example string "fan" but i want to display "afn" contained words
"afn" is in sorted format for fan.

File data
Code:
faty
gafny
gaifny
dafan
gafnniunt

O/p
Code:
gafny
gafnniunt

# 2  
Old 09-25-2011
grep afn filename
# 3  
Old 09-25-2011
Hey i know that grep afn filename.

but we dont know that afn is the string to be search..

if "hate" is the string then we need to search for "aeht"
if "hat" is the string then we need to search for "aht"

we need to search like this. please with the good answer
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Old 09-25-2011
What have you tried to solve this problem.
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