On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Bob R. wrote: > Is there a scripting addition freeware that will sort strings of > text in alphabetical order, for > OSX? > > Thanks! > there is the shell command sort set foo to {"a", "b", "d", "g", "aa", "bb", "c", "cc", "e", "f"} set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return set lun to open for access ("/tmp/junk.txt" as POSIX file) with write permission write (foo as text) to lun close lun set outtext to do shell script "sort /tmp/junk.txt" every text item of outtext