Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with how the text you've given is intended to sort; could you please be more specific about what the expected results are, and what you actually obtained?
Also, did you perhaps mean one of:
sed "s/\(.*\)/\1\n/g" < ipa_phrase.txt | sort
or
sed "s/\(.\)/\1\n/g" < ipa_phrase.txt | uniq | sort
?
Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with how the text you've given is intended to sort; could you please be more specific about what the expected results are, and what you actually obtained?
Also, did you perhaps mean one of:
sed "s/\(.*\)/\1\n/g" < ipa_phrase.txt | sort
or
sed "s/\(.\)/\1\n/g" < ipa_phrase.txt | uniq | sort
?