[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes:
> Given a list of pathnames, I'd like to be able to
> sort that list by the basename of each file in the
> list
[pause to pull-start the 500cc swiss-army chainsaw...]
perl -e 'print map { $_->[0], "\n" } sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map { [$_, @{ chomp;
m#/[^/]*$#}[0]] } <ARGV>'
Hope this helps,
--kevin
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