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Old 08-06-2014
Help: Sorting the numbers without using sort command
Hi,
I've got two arrays

1 3 5 7
2 4 6 8

and i need to write a shell script to get the output 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 without using sort or bubble sort.
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