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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File ordering by portion of filename Post 302317429 by Leion on Tuesday 19th of May 2009 02:29:56 AM
Old 05-19-2009
File ordering by portion of filename

Hi,

Lets say I have a few xml files:
1234567894.xml
abc_1234567895.xml
abc_000_1234567890.xml
abc_0000000_1234567893.xml
684_abc_000_1234567899.xml

The naming convention of the files is:
xxxxx_timestamp.xml OR timestamp.xml
where x can be anything

and I would like to order them by the timestamp, so the list should be:

abc_000_1234567890.xml
abc_0000000_1234567893.xml
1234567894.xml
abc_1234567895.xml
684_abc_000_1234567899.xml

Is there anyway to order the files using the ls command?
or do I need to use awk for this?
 

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INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)

NAME
intltool-merge - merge translated strings into various file types such as XML SYNOPSIS
intltool-merge [ -v|--version ] [ -h|--help ] [ -q|--quiet ] [ -d|--desktop-style ] [ -k|--keys-style ] [ -o|--oaf-style ] [ -x|--xml-style ] [ -u|--utf8 ] [ -p|--pass-through ] PO_DIRECTORY FILENAME OUTPUT_FILE DESCRIPTION
Merge translated strings in po files in PO_DIRECTORY with the original application file FILENAME, and output the file OUTPUT_FILE contain- ing both the original and the localized strings. Afterwards the application xml file will contain repeated xml-nodes where each one contains one of all translations and a xml:lang attribute. OPTIONS
-v, --version Show version information. -h, --help Show usage and basic help information. -q, --quiet Be quiet while running. -d, --desktop-style Merge files in desktop style, which is similar to the Windows .ini file format. -k, --keys-style Merge files in the keys style, which is used for metadata. -x, --oaf-style Merge files in the oaf style. -x, --xml-style Merge files in the XML style, both as attributes and as raw pcdata. -u, --utf8 Convert all strings to UTF-8 before merging. -p, --pass-through Use strings as found in .po files, without conversion (STRONGLY unrecommended with -x). REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org or by sending email to xml-i18n-tools@gnome.org. AUTHOR
Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com> Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> SEE ALSO
intltoolize(8), xml-18n-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-update(8) intltool February 14, 2002 INTLTOOL-MERGE(8)
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