[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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