How to sort arrays in Bash

Question

I need to write sorting code array function in bash and first input is number of number and end return array sorted for example :: input 5 2 4 10 1 4returns 1 2 4 4 10

Answer 1

The following script sorts array a where first element in the array is the number of elements in the array. The result is stored in variable b

#! /bin/bash

IFS=$'\n' a=( 3 3 2 1 )
b=$(sort <<< "${a[*]:1}")
echo ${b[*]}