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Re: Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup
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Paul E Condon |
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Re: Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:56:30 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On 2009-01-26_2152.52, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> > My suggestion is that the software also rename the earlier backup
> > files as follows: In each name, insert the digit zero (0) in front of
> > the digit [1-9]. This will preserve the correct display order of the
> > backups in a simple invocation of "ls -l" . This will make for a
> > more cleanly ordered display up to 99 backups.
>
> Are you aware of the -v sort by version option for ls? This will
> usually sort the display as you desire by treating the filenames as
> versioned named.
>
> ls -logv
>
> Does that do what you want?
>
> You can read more about version sorting in the ls documentation.
>
> info coreutils 'Sorting the output'
>
> Bob
>
Yes. It is a better solution than what I was suggesting. I now need
an excuse for not thinking to look in info coreutils and only looking
in info ls, which is just a repeat of the man page on my machine. Is
that because I'm running Debian?
But no excuses. coreutils is the greatest!
Thanks.
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Paul E Condon
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