On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:09 -0700, Evan Klitzke wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to sort a list of directories that correspond to kernel > sources under /usr/src/linux. I wrote some code that gets a list like > this: > ['linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r4', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11/', > 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7/'] > > When I sort the list, I want it to go from oldest (lowest version) to > newest, so the sorted list should look like this: > ['linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r4', 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7/', > 'linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r11/'] > > The problem is that since the built in string comparisons compare > character by character, so the sort puts 2.6.16 before 2.6.9, and -r11 > before -r7. This is obviously not what I want. My question is: are > there any modules or built in methods that will do a logical sort on a > list like this, and sort it the way I want, or will I have to write my > own sorting function? > > -- Evan Klitzke > > P.S. I know that the simplest way is just to use ls to sort by time, > but it is not necessarily true that older kernel versions have an > older time stamp :-) Or use ‘ls -v’. (I said it's “off topic” on the subject, sorry! It might escaped you, but ‘ls’ _does_ have a proper sort by version.)
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