New Sort? (kind of)

One doesn’t find a new sorting algorithm floating around the internet very often, but here’s one that I found that’s actually kind of neat.

It’s not really very practical, but it’s still very fun. It’s quite simple. For each element of the array, you fork a new process which sleeps it’s value in seconds then displays that number. Repeat for the entire array.

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

found here!