Sorting Words in a Line

[egan]

Hey, is there an elegant way to sort the words within a line?
e.g. if I have:
bass dover carp albacore
I want it to come out like so:
albacore bass carp dover

I could come up with a kludge, but it would be nice to know a real way to do it.

[arochester]

H for Homework?

[egan]

Actually no, I am just a novice enthusiast that would like some help...

I suppose you get a lot of questions here from people in school?

Perhaps the reason my post looks like homework are the fish; I actually started with fruits and decided that I like fish better.

I am writing a script that install a lot of packages with apt-get, and my OCD is telling me to sort them by category (already done) and by name within each category. Basically, I am trying to ease the pain of initial installation, and I want to be able to extend this script elegantly as I find more packages I like/need. Thus is the reason I want them in alphabetical order.

[egan]

Okay, for now I have a hack that works okay...

tr " " "\n" | sort | tr "\n" " "

[UndeniablyRexer]

This is very simple to do in C++, and can be run through the terminal. Although, my knowledge in C++ is limited, so the only way I know to do it is an linked list, which might be over you're head if you don't know C++ already.

It might help to know that you can use "<" or ">" with strings. ("bass" < "carp") will return true.