but what if the items they wanted to sort were all on one line?

[Dan Jacobson]

Of all the sorting commands listed in Info: sort-lines, etc. the
likelihood is big one day that a user will come with a line to sort like
2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38.
I mean you have several functions ready for users with data in one
item per line formats, but none to sort many items on the same
line---an indeed common thing one might want to do.  Perhaps one at
least could add one solution to the Docs, e.g.

$ echo 2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38|tr \  \\n|sort -n|tr \\n \ 
2 7 8 12 15 21 23 29 30 36 38 0
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