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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:21:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:44:27 -0700, Keith Thompson
<Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
>> And I see that using Python's getkey() function to swap "_D" and "_H"
>> would be a way to solve this. But it's far from obvious how to set up a
>> custom sort.
> 
> And you still think comp.lang.c is the place to talk about it?
> 
> If the links I already posted aren't sufficiently helpful (I expected
> they would be), comp.lang.python exists and is reasonably active.
> 
>> Incidentally you might like the default sort in my ls command, now in
>> the Baby X FileSystem shell. There's also a separate programs that runs
>> under the native shell - of course I developed the command on native
>> host filesystems first. It uses a natural sort so that "Chapter 10"
>> sorts after and not before "Chapter 2".
> 
> GNU coreutils ls has a "-v" or "--sort=version" option that does this.

I just posted a python program to comp.lang.python that uses
glibc's strverscmp(3) to sort input parameters.

There is also a separate thread in comp.unix.shell where this has
come up.

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-v