Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes. In addition, as long as the ASCIIbetical order is good for you,
you don't even need the sort command:

Code:

zsh-4.3.14[t]% ls -1 IGL01*.dat 
IGL01_AC_D_20110614_N01_01.dat
IGL01_AC_D_20110614_N01_02.dat
IGL01_AC_D_20110614_N02_01.dat
IGL01_AC_D_20110615_N01_01.dat

woohooo..thats really amazing.
I will surely play around with all these combinations of command to get a good feel.

Thank you lots very much. Nice to have people like you for helping us in these forums

---------- Post updated 12-28-11 at 01:46 AM ---------- Previous update was 12-27-11 at 05:31 PM ----------

Sorry to be here again..if im not too abusing on this forum

One question pop up in my mind last night.

what is the difference between the

Code:

-k4

and

Code:

-k4,4

Many Thanks

Code:

 
man sort

There is no substitute for testing things out yourself. Have a go and see what you get. It is simple enough to create a directory for testing and then use touch to create a bunch of files with the name in the correct format with enough variations to have a go with the code you have.


If there is more required, please show what you have tried and what your files are listed as and what you are trying to acheive. There are some subtle differences in the version of sort on some flavours of unix, so we might be breaking its rules somewhere.

Let us know how you get on.



Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

I will try some and get back to you but nevertherless I'm really satisfied with the answers given in the forums here because the modification I made to my shell works well and is already on prod env

Big applause and thanks to you all. I will play around with some more command and get back soon.