It should be possible from technical point of view to add a new option
--numeric-sort or --natural-sort that wouldn't conflict with -X or any
other sort options of ls.
I am a C++ developer myself, so I can implement this new options
myself. Would the community of coreutils developers be interested
On Mai 01 2017, Tony Malykh wrote:
> It appears that version sort (-v) option achieves exactly that.
> However, the problem with it is that it seems to be incompatible with
> extension sort (-X) option.
This isn't limited to these two option. Generally, ls only supports a
single sort option, wi
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thanks
On 05/01/2017 07:50 PM, Tony Malykh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if there is a way to do a numeric sort in ls?
Thanks for the report; the quick answer is that sort can already do what
you want, so post-process your ls output with sort.
> Here is a concrete exampl
Hi all,
I am wondering if there is a way to do a numeric sort in ls? I am
aware of version sort option -v and blow I explain the problem with
it.
What I'd like to achieve:
Suppose I have files with numbers in their names.:
p1.py
p2.py
p11.py
It appears that version sort (-v) option achieves exac