Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:30:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sorting a device list Message-ID: <87hbsexjd7.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEAB5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> (Peter Steele's message of "Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600") References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEAB5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> 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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