Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:36:05 +0100 From: Oliver Mahmoudi <olivermahmoudi@gmail.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sorting a device list Message-ID: <6b4b2d2c0911291036v358eb322m5bdf470e450f78ba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEADA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEAB5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <87hbsexjd7.fsf@kobe.laptop> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33BBEADA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so: # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf "/dev/ad10\n" Does that help? Oliver On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > 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] > 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> > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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