Paul E Condon wrote: > My suggestion is that the software also rename the earlier backup > files as follows: In each name, insert the digit zero (0) in front of > the digit [1-9]. This will preserve the correct display order of the > backups in a simple invocation of "ls -l" . This will make for a > more cleanly ordered display up to 99 backups.
Are you aware of the -v sort by version option for ls? This will usually sort the display as you desire by treating the filenames as versioned named. ls -logv Does that do what you want? You can read more about version sorting in the ls documentation. info coreutils 'Sorting the output' Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
