I ended up using ls /dev/ad*|sort -g -k1.8
Not quite as generic as I wanted but it works... From: Oliver Mahmoudi [mailto:olivermahmo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:36 AM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting a device list you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so: # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf "/dev/ad10\n" Does that help? Oliver On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele <pste...@maxiscale.com<mailto:pste...@maxiscale.com>> wrote: I had tried that. It doesn't work: # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I want the ad10 to appear last... -----Original Message----- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr<mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr>] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org<mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sorting a device list On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <pste...@maxiscale.com<mailto:pste...@maxiscale.com>> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For > example, if I do this: > > ls /dev/ad* | sort > > I get something like this: > > /dev/ad10 > /dev/ad4 > /dev/ad6 > /dev/ad8 Just use `sort -n': ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n It should work fine even when there are non-numeric prefix strings. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org<mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org<mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
