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[LUG] Sleep sort

 
Came across this yesterday. Definitely not the fastest search
algorithm but probably the nicest I've ever seen.

#!/bin/bash
function f() {
    sleep "$1"
    echo "$1"
}
while [ -n "$1" ]
do
    f "$1" &
    shift
done
wait

Call with integers to be sorted as arguments.

Source: http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1295544154 which also has some
nice improvements.

Martijn.

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