On Monday 02 March 2015, at 17:38 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I read the explanation of the options you mention. Even with a file as big > > as > > to generate only 97 files I get this > > x00 > > x01 > > ... > > x89 > > x9000 > > x9001 > > .... > > x9007 > > > > While it is true that with the option "-a 3" I get the expected results > > (.... > > x089, x090, ....) I still think it is not the normal behavior to jump from > > x89 > > to x9000. x90 (and x91...x97) would be a perfectly good name with the same > > suffix lenght of all the other names (i.e. 2). > > The naming is chosen so that standard shell globbing, > and other simple sorting mechanisms, will result in the desired order. > Consider: > > $ touch x90 x100 && echo x* > x100 x90
I undertand that. I am talking about numbers that are <100 . I get only 98 files. why not name the last 8: x90 x91....x97? in your example if I do $ touch x89 x90 && echo x* x89 x90 there is no reason why there should not be a x90 file. Again I am not talking about a x100 file but of a number of files that is less than 100 but more than 90. In particular I have 98 files and I get x00....x89, x9000...x9007. why not x90 x91...x97? Those would be ordered correctly with any sorting mechanism. Thanks, beatrice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
