Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:56:50 -0600 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Sorting a device list Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEADA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <87hbsexjd7.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEAB5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <87hbsexjd7.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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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:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr]=20
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM
To: Peter Steele
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Sorting a device list
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wr=
ote:
> Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For exa=
mple, 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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