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Old 08-08-2018
How to sort these files?
Hi,

An ls outputs this

Code:
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d10
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d11
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d2
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d3
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d4
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:41 file_2.d1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:41 file_2.d10
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d11
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d2
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d4
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_3.d1

Tried several combos with the sort command but can't get the output to be like this

Code:
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d2
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d3
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:25 file.d4
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d10
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:24 file.d11
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:41 file_2.d1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d2
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d4
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:41 file_2.d10
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_2.d11
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jeisma     users            0 Aug  8 09:42 file_3.d1

Any ideas how?

TIA!
# 2  
Old 08-08-2018
It becomes simpler when you only have the file names, i.e. with a simple ls command.
Then you can use the dot as the field delimiter, sort for field #1 primary and field #2 secondary. And in field #2 start with an offset (2nd character) and sort numerically.
Code:
ls | sort -t . -k1,1 -k2.2,2n

Then you can expand with "ls -l". E.g. pipe it to xargs ls -l
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# 3  
Old 08-08-2018
or if you insist on working with ls -lt, the old awk/cut trick:
Code:
ls -lt | awk '{print $NF, $0}' | sort -t '.' -k1,1 -k2.2,2n | cut -d ' ' -f2-

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# 4  
Old 08-08-2018
thank you very much!!!
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