Looking for an app (script?) to alphabetize a list

[DeusxMac]

Haven't needed this ability for a looong time, but I'm sure I used to have something that could alphabetize a selected list of words/sentences, but I'm not seeing this capability in anything I've now got installed.

Not in TextEdit. Not in Notes. Not in Pages. Not in TextWrangler.
Search of the Apple App Store doesn't zero in on anything, nor does MacUpdate.

Am I just overlooking this capability somewhere, or is it now only in high end word processing apps?

TIA

[kurtzie]

Paste into a spreadsheets and sort?
Numbers, Libre Office, Excel?

[Buzz]

Go into Word (or other word processing program w/ adequate functionality), do a Find & Replace for the space character " " with a carriage return... in Word it's "^p". That gives you a giant list of your words. Use the Sort function (in Word it's under the "Table" menu) to sort by 'Text' in ascending order, and you have an alphabetized list.
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[dfilpus]

BBEdit can sort text lines.

[NewtonMP2100]

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[TheTominator]

DeusxMac wrote:
Not in TextWrangler.

My version of TextWrangler has it. (version 5.5.2)

Select text.
Select from the menu Text->Sort Lines...


Of course, Terminal can do it.

$ sort unsorted.txt > sorted.txt

[Bernie]

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[gabester]

TheTominator wrote:
Of course, Terminal can do it.

$ sort unsorted.txt > sorted.txt

This is the way to do it with least effort. You can drag your input file to the Terminal.app window after typing sort then type > then drag the folder you want the output file to go into to the Terminal.app window and be sure to append a filename there e.g. /sorted.txt with no spaces...

Something that looks like this:

$ sort /Users/username/Desktop/source.txt > /Users/username/Desktop/sorted.txt

Oh, and it's available on any Mac, no extra apps needed. At the Apple Store? You can run this. Bonus points for eliminating duplicates by piping through the uniq command!

[TheTominator]

If you already have the text inside a program such as a word processor and don't want to save it to a separate plain text file...

Highlight the text.
Copy.
At the Terminal command prompt type "pbpaste | sort | pbcopy" and hit return.
Go back to your word processor and Paste.

The selection will be replaced with the text sorted.
By default it will be sorted alphabetically in ascending order.
To sort in descending order use "pbpaste | sort -r | pbcopy"
To sort in ascending numerical order use "pbpaste | sort -n | pbcopy"
To sort in descending numerical order use "pbpaste | sort -nr | pbcopy"

[TheTominator]

Bernie wrote:
[bOld school Mac software.

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macOS 10.10 seems pretty new school to me.
I run 10.6.8 on my primary productivity machine.