Off topic: I search a tool to sort all lines in a textfile

[Sheepdog]

Does anybody know a free or shareware tool that opens a given text file and sorts all lines in alphabetical order ?


Thanks


sheepdog

[Lefteous]

2Sheepdog
What about the sort console application in windows?

[Raymond]

EmEditor, an excellent text editor.
Two plugins of it can do alphabetical sorting, one for ascending order and one for descending order.
You can find this shareware along with its plugins here:
http://www.emeditor.com/

[Horst.Epp]

Use the free PSPad Editor
It has a lot of nice sort options.
http://www.pspad.com/en/index.html

[djk]

Yes, Horst.Epp is right, PSPad is really powerfull and it can easily sort text alphabetically.

[ben hub]

my suggestion:

type unsortedfile.txt | sort > sortedfile.txt

[Leif]

TextPad - http://www.textpad.com

[SanskritFritz]

Yes, TextPad has POWERFUL sort options.

[Sheepdog]

Thanks for all suggestions.

The command line solution with 'sort' is simple and came not to my mind. But it is not usable for me (as I found out while trying ) - because I dont need the sorting of the whole file but sorting of some sections.

After reading all the other proposals I found that Textpad should have such a sorting function. Since I use Textpad for at least two years it never occured to me that it could contain this feature. And after the hint I used the help and found out: it's true.

So thanks again for your suggestions - my problem is solved.


sheepdog

[SanskritFritz]

TextPad is in one way similar to TC: it is loaded with features and still simple to use!
Sometimes here and there we find those "hidden" features just like in TC.

[Sheepdog]

Yes partner, and we should remember from time to time to read help or as icfu would had said : RTFM



sheepdog

[SanskritFritz]

Which reads: Read The Fine Manual!

[Clo]

2SanskritFritz
Wrong, it's Read The Famous Manual

Kind regards,
Clo

[Sheepdog]

Yes icfu always uses the refined language.

sheepdog