2 # Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
4 # Copyright 2001 Chester Ramey
6 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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11 # TThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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20 # Sort the positional parameters.
21 # Make sure the positional parameters are passed as arguments to the function.
22 # If -u is the first arg, remove duplicate array members.
32 # if you want the case of no positional parameters to return success,
33 # remove the error message and return 0
35 echo "$FUNCNAME: argument expected" >&2
39 # make R a copy of the positional parameters
43 R=( $( printf "%s\n" "${R[@]}" | sort $u) )
45 printf "%s\n" "${R[@]}"
49 # will print everything on separate lines
50 set -- 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 2
53 # sets without preserving quoted parameters
54 set -- $( sort_posparams "$@" )
58 # sets preserving quoted parameters, beware pos params with embedded newlines
59 set -- 'a b' 'a c' 'x z'
63 set -- $( sort_posparams "$@" )