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# 1  
Old 02-01-2012
Sorting of alphanumeric filenames..
Hi All,
I want sort following files in ascending order.

exp_installer_CC4160-file10.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file11.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file12.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file13.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file14.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file15.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file16.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file1.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file20.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file22.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file2.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file3.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file4.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file5.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file6.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file7.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file8.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file9.dmp

Required Output to be like this:

exp_installer_CC4160-file1.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file2.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file3.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file4.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file5.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file6.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file7.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file8.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file9.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file10.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file11.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file12.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file13.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file14.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file15.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file16.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file20.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file22.dmp
# 2  
Old 02-01-2012
Code:
$ nawk -F"file" '{print $1 "file " $2}' input.txt | sort -k2 -n | sed 's/ //'
exp_installer_CC4160-file1.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file2.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file3.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file4.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file5.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file6.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file7.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file8.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file9.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file10.dmp 
exp_installer_CC4160-file11.dmp 
exp_installer_CC4160-file12.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file13.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file14.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file15.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file16.dmp
exp_installer_CC4160-file20.dmp 
exp_installer_CC4160-file22.dmp

# 3  
Old 02-02-2012
This should be sufficient:
Code:
sort -t- -nk2.5 input.txt

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itkamaraj
# 4  
Old 02-02-2012
Thanks a lot..
Hi,

I am working as Jr.Dba in one private company. I am working on some linux scripts (bash shell) which will automate dump import into database. Some clients will send more than ten dump files with their respective comapny name as file extension.

Ex: dell1.dmp, dell2.dmp.....dell33.dmp
Ex: hcl1.dmp, hcl2.dmp.....hcl33.dmp
Ex: cephlon1.dmp, cephlon2.dmp.....cephlon33.dmp

so i need common linux scripts which will sort alphanumeric file names based on last two digits or more usnig bash shell

Regards,
RK

---------- Post updated at 11:00 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:12 AM ----------

Very nice...Thanq....
It is working fine if a copied dump files in sequence order, but if i copied random order then it showing wrong output.

Ex: file2, file3, file1,file4,file7,file9,file8....
Last edited by gramakrishna; 02-02-2012 at 01:42 AM.. Reason: another requirement
 
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