Given a list of pathnames, I'd like to be able to sort that list by the basename of each file in the list, ie. the pathname
q/r/s/t/u/v/aaa ...would sort ahead of aaaa/aaaa/bbb ...because the basename 'aaa' sorts lexicographically ahead of 'bbb'. My current approach is a bit clunky but works as long as the pathnames in question contain no spaces, thus: sed -e 's;/\([^/]*\)$; \1;' | sort -bfd +1 | sed -e 's; ;/;' ...which replaces the last slash in each pathname with a space, sorts that list of dual-field space-delimited records keyed on the second field, and then replaces the slashes. Suggestions for improvement welcome. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
