On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, at 3:46pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> 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; ;/;'
  
  Suggestion: Use a star (*) instead of a space.  Filenames containing
spaces are not uncommon, while filenames containing shell meta-characters
are still decidedly rare.

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