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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sorting files ending in numbers with "sort" Post 302815963 by newbie2010 on Monday 3rd of June 2013 01:23:07 AM
Old 06-03-2013
Sorting files ending in numbers with "sort"
I have a group of files that I need to be sorted by number. I have tried to use the sort command without any luck.
Code:
ls includes* 
includes1
includes10
includes11
includes12
includes2
includes3
includes4
includes5
includes6
includes7
includes8
includes9

I have tried ls includes* |sort -n and I have tried sorting by field. I then tried sort -r to see if the order would reverse. None of these commands changes the order. includes10 includes11 and includes12 should be at the end of these files not at the beginning. Any ideas as to how to accomplish this?
 

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readahead

readahead(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      readahead(8)

NAME

       readahead - file preloader for boot process optimization

SYNOPSIS

       readahead [options] <file-list> [another-file-list [...]]

DESCRIPTION

       readahead is a files preloader designed to optimize the disk I/O during the boot process.

OPTIONS

       -b, --build
	      build optimised files list only, without sorting.

       -s, --sort
	      build and sort list of files only (implies -b).

       -o, --output <file>
	      write sorted list of files to file.

       -d, --dont-sort
	      preload files described by an already sorted files list.

       -h, --help
	      print the usage information.

       -v, --verbose
	      enable the verbose mode.

       -t, --timing
	      report time spent on each operation.

       -m, --maxsize <max size>
	      maximum size in KiB a file can be in order to be preloaded, default is 10240.

       <file-list> [another-file-list [...]]
	      One or more files containing the list of files to be preloaded or sorted. The files list can be generated by readahead-collector(8).

FILES

       /etc/default/readahead-fedora

SEE ALSO

       readahead-collector(8), readahead(2),

AUTHORS

       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	      Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@klika.si>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,

       This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>

								     July 2011							      readahead(8)
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