On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For
> example, if I do this:
>
> ls /dev/ad* | sort
>
> I get something like this:
>
> /dev/ad10
> /dev/ad4
> /dev/ad6
> /dev/ad8
Just use `sort -n':
ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n
It should work fine even when there are non-numeric prefix strings.
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