Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:16:14 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: "rc@freebsd.org" <rc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: network.subr _aliasN handling Message-ID: <CAFHbX1JOKjJxkvgOLY0rkLCUAGLM5pYXOdJ2AoY47sxUCe_G=Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AFFFCC9A-8C21-4C0B-A8D9-457E4C26DDA3@fisglobal.com> References: <20131228055324.GA72764@aim7400.DataIX.local> <A7699871-A170-4AD5-B740-ED8BE17C7107@fisglobal.com> <9498BE8E-8090-4E7A-8317-18D29B1DDC08@dataix.net> <7DBA7D58-E925-47BC-967C-F653348426A6@fisglobal.com> <A15FAFBD-4597-4D8D-A014-0D486573894C@dataix.net> <AFFFCC9A-8C21-4C0B-A8D9-457E4C26DDA3@fisglobal.com>
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2014, at 2:59 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> I believe I know what you mean by that but in a way scares me when you say sort as in mixing up the original order they appear in which I would find to be really unattractive to most. >> > > It's not as scary as it sounds. > > The issue is that the variables are sorted alphabetically, instead > of numerically. > > Let's take four words: foo1, foo2, foo10, and foo20. > If you sort them alphabetically, you get: > > foo1 > foo10 > foo2 > foo20 > > You'll notice this when doing a directory listing, as that too is sorted > alphabetically. > > This is why "alias14" is run before "alias8" and "alias9". Because they > are processed in alphabetically sorted order. I didn't do anything to sort > the values, they came pre-sorted in alphabetic order. > > If I simply throw in a "| sort -n", then it will change it to numerically sorted. > As you might expect, numerically sorting the above list would result in: > > foo1 > foo2 > foo10 > foo20 > > Trivial really. I'll throw a patch at you when I get some cycles (soon). Wouldn't "|sort -n" sort foo10 before foo2? Cheers Tom
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