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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
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	(Peter Steele's message of "Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600")
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Subject: Re: Sorting a device list
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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.