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Assuming I have a file called "students" containing this:

NEWTON Isaac MAXWELL James EDISON Thomas TESLA Nikola

how I am supposed to sort these names with a bash script in shell ? Do I need to use a delimiter with carriage return ? Will this support accentuated characters ?

Thanks for your time.

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  • On SO we do encourage people to add their efforts in their post, kindly do so and let us know then. Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 13:25
  • sort based on first name or last name ? Please give details of the expected output Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 13:26
  • Unclear what your problem is. The sort command with no options should do exactly what you are asking. Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 13:27

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You can make use of the sort function.

$ cat stud.txt NEWTON Isaac MAXWELL James EDISON Thomas TESLA Nikola $ sort stud.txt EDISON Thomas MAXWELL James NEWTON Isaac TESLA Nikola

To sort on last name, use the -k option.

$ sort -k 2 stud.txt NEWTON Isaac MAXWELL James TESLA Nikola EDISON Thomas
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