On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:46:40PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given a list of pathnames, I'd like to be able to > sort that list by the basename of each file in the > list, ie. the pathname > > q/r/s/t/u/v/aaa > > ...would sort ahead of > > aaaa/aaaa/bbb > > ...because the basename 'aaa' sorts lexicographically > ahead of 'bbb'. > > My current approach is a bit clunky but works as long as > the pathnames in question contain no spaces, thus: > > sed -e 's;/\([^/]*\)$; \1;' | sort -bfd +1 | sed -e 's; ;/;' > > ...which replaces the last slash in each pathname with > a space, sorts that list of dual-field space-delimited > records keyed on the second field, and then replaces > the slashes. Suggestions for improvement welcome.
'/' is an illegal character in a filename, right? sed -e 's;\(\(.*\)/\)*\(.*\);\3/\1\3;' | sort -fdt/k1 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/\(.*\);\1;' -- Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet." -- Bruce Schneier, CRYPTO-GRAM, May 15, 2001 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
