Sort text file containing words

Question

I have a plain text file that has a list of words in it (they are one word per line) - kind of like a custom user dictionary.
I want to be able to open the file, highlight all the words, Ctrl+Click and sort the words alphabetically.
I did not see a sort function in Automator for selected text. I read something about a Grep command while I was searching for a solution before posting this request, but I am very new at Automator so am asking for help. Any ideas about how to do this?
Thank you.

Answer 1

There is a sort shell script that you can use (there are a few options to change the way it sorts).
example workflow:
1) *Get Specified Finder Items* (or however you want to get the text file(s))
2) *Run Shell Script* { Pass Input: as arguments }for f in "$@"
do
sort "$f"
done
3) *New Text File* { Save as: Sorted.txt    Where: wherever } -- save the sorted items