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# 1  
Old 09-10-2009
Sorting in a for loop

when i use a for loop like this,

for s in *
do
echo $s
done

it give me the result in this fashion;

1
10
12
2
23
3

I need it sorted in numerical order, like this;

1
2
3
10
12
23

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 09-10-2009
Are your filenames just numbers like: 1, 2, 23?
Otherwise what do you think you are getting with the * ?

* makes filenames appear in alphabetic order, so I do not understand what the * is doing. Or if you are even using * the way you think you are.
# 3  
Old 09-10-2009
Code:
for s in *
do
echo $s
done | sort -n

# 4  
Old 09-10-2009
thanks daPeach but this dosen't work for me because i need to sort the files before start the loop.
I'm going to do more things than just echo them;

Code:
a=1
for s in *
do
echo "$s ""---"" $a"
a=$(($a+1))
done | sort -n

If i do what you tell me i get this;

Code:
1 --- 1
2 --- 4
3 --- 6
10 --- 2
12 --- 3
23 --- 5

i need...

Code:
1 --- 1
2 --- 2
3 --- 3
10 --- 4
12 --- 5
23 --- 6


Last edited by vgersh99; 09-10-2009 at 03:18 PM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
# 5  
Old 09-10-2009
Code:
a=1
for s in $(echo *|sort -n); do
  echo "$s ""---"" $((a++))"
done

# 6  
Old 09-10-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Code:
a=1
for s in $(echo *|sort -n); do
  echo "$s ""---"" $((a++))"
done

The code resulted in alpha sorting, rather than numeric sorting, when I tried it.

This modification seems to produce results that are numerically sorted:

Code:
a=1
for s in $(echo * | sed 's/\W\+/\
/g ' |sort -n)
do
echo "$s ""---"" $a"
a=$(($a+1))
done

# 7  
Old 09-10-2009
Dang you're right. I did not really check the code.
Interestingly
Code:
a=1
for s in $(ls|sort -n); do
  echo "$s ""---"" $((a++))"
done

Does work as expected...

edit:

So sort works when newline is the separator, but in the case of ls, but does or doesn't ls produce a newline?
Code:
echo *
1 10 12 2 23 3
echo *>/tmp/test1
cat /tmp/test1
1 10 12 2 23 3

Code:
ls
1  10  12  2  23  3

ls>/tmp/test2
cat /tmp/test2
1
10
12
2
23
3


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-10-2009 at 07:11 PM..
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