#! /usr/bin/bash family=("Marge" "Homer" "Bart" "Lisa" "Maggie") neighbours=("Ned" "Maude" "Todd" "Rod") echo "family=${family[@]}" echo "Länge family: ${#family[@]}" echo "neighbours=${neighbours[@]}" echo "Länge neighbours: ${#neigbours[@]}" merged=(${family[@]} ${neighbours[@]}) echo "merged=${merged[@]}" echo "Länge merged: ${#merged[@]}" # sorting the merged array sorted=($(printf "%s\n" "${merged[@]}" | sort -n)) echo "sorted=${sorted[@]}"