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Old 11th April 2009
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Default ls sorting of numbered files

I don't really know where I should post this, but I remember Windows has the same behaviour, so I'm here.
Say I have some files named: 1 2 10 11 20
This is the order you expect, right?
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$ ls
1  10 11 2  20
I have solved this in the past and present putting a zero in front of units, but I'm sure there's a better way to sort the files in the proper way. Is there?
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maybe try that:
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% ls | sort -n | tr '\n' ' '
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thanks a lot
But why does ls behave like this?
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The file names in 'ls' output are sorted in lexicographic order (dictionary order).
'2' is less than '10' numerically but in lex. order 2 comes after 10.

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but then, what about this:
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$ ls | sort -n | tr '\n' ' ' 
a-1 a-10 a-2 a-20 $
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If you want that kind of sorting, then number your files properly:
Code:
% :> asd_01
% :> asd_02
% :> asd_10
% :> asd_11
% :> asd_20
% ls -1 asd_*
asd_01
asd_02
asd_10
asd_11
asd_20
% ls asd_*
asd_01  asd_02  asd_10  asd_11  asd_20
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this is what I actually do. I was only curious to know if there was a simple way around it if you get names with bad names without renaming them.
Thanks a lot.
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