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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Numerically sorted arguments (in shell)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:21:55 +0200
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On 16.06.2024 20:00, Eric Pozharski wrote:
> with <v4ll54$3sd11$1@dont-email.me> Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> [sorting file names numerically]
> 
> (Disclaimer: I'm ksh-ignorant) Speaking of features.
> 
> 	{14439:44} [0:0]% print -cC6 *
> 	bar-20.baz  bar-3.baz   foo-10.bar  foo-23.bar  foo-5.bar
> 	bar-21.baz  bar-6.baz   foo-13.bar  foo-29.bar  foo-6.bar
> 	bar-24.baz  bar-8.baz   foo-1.bar   foo-3.bar   foo-7.bar
> 	bar-26.baz  foo-0.bar   foo-22.bar  foo-4.bar   foo-8.bar
> 	{14445:45} [0:0]% print -cC6 *(n)
> 	bar-3.baz   bar-21.baz  foo-1.bar   foo-6.bar   foo-13.bar
> 	bar-6.baz   bar-24.baz  foo-3.bar   foo-7.bar   foo-22.bar
> 	bar-8.baz   bar-26.baz  foo-4.bar   foo-8.bar   foo-23.bar
> 	bar-20.baz  foo-0.bar   foo-5.bar   foo-10.bar  foo-29.bar
> 
> That nymph between weapon and tool is 'glob qualifier' (acts at
> 'filename generation' phase).  But!  It's zsh. 

Yeah, I was positive that Zsh supports such a qualifier.

> That being said, as a
> result of cross-pollination, something similar might be in ksh too.  I
> can't say where to dig through ksh-documentation.

Well, I don't know of any in Ksh. (That's my problem.)

Janis