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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to sort files in directory numerically? Post 303043475 by c3rb3rus on Wednesday 29th of January 2020 11:25:53 AM
Old 01-29-2020
Yes I tried using this..

Code:
ls -l /usr1/tmp/backup.bk* | sort -tk -k 3.1b,3n

But it does not give the desired results, I am reading through the sort manual but it is very confusing.
 

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BIORUBY(1)						      General Commands Manual							BIORUBY(1)

NAME
br_bioflat.rb -- OBDA flat file indexer SYNOPSIS
Search: br_bioflat.rb [--search] [options...] br_bioflat.rb [--search] [--location DIR] [--dbname DBNAME] [options...] [KEYWORDS] Create index: br_bioflat.rb [--create] [--location DIR] [--dbname DBNAME] [--format genbank|embl|fasta] [options...] [--files FILES...] Update index: br_bioflat.rb [--update] [--location DIR] [--dbname DBNAME] [options...] [--files FILES...] Show namespaces: br_bioflat.rb [--show-namespaces] [--location DIR] [--dbname DBNAME] [DIR/DBNAME] br_bioflat.rb [--show-namespaces] [--format=CLASS] br_bioflat.rb [--show-namespaces] [--files file] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the br_bioflat.rb. br_bioflat.rb is an OBDA flat file indexer. OPTIONS
--search Search a database for keywords. --namespace --name Only valid with the --search option. Set the search namespace. You can set this option multiple times to specify more than one namespace. --create Create an index. --location Specify the directory. --dbname Specify the name of the database. --primary --secondary Set the primary and secondarynamespace of the index. Default primary/secondary namespaces depend on the format of the flatfiles. Only valid with the --create option. --add-secondary Add secondary namespaces to the default specification. You can use this option many times. Only valid with the --create option. --update Update an index --sort Sort an index. You can set this to a path to an external sorting program, or BUILTIN to use the builtin sort module. This option is only valid with --create (or --update) and --type flat options. --renew Re-read all flatfiles and update whole index. This option is only valid with the --update option. --show-namespaces Display the namespaces for an index file. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Nusinow dnusinow@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. BIORUBY(1)
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