I ended up using ls /dev/ad*|sort -g -k1.8
Not quite as generic as I wanted but it works... From: Oliver Mahmoudi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:36 AM To: Peter Steele Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sorting a device list you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so: # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf "/dev/ad10\n" Does that help? Oliver On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I had tried that. It doesn't work: # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I want the ad10 to appear last... -----Original Message----- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Sorting a device list On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <[email protected]<mailto:[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. _______________________________________________ [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
