Re: Numerically sorted arguments (in shell)

On 24.06.2024 16:22, Chris Elvidge wrote:

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Originally you said:
(Ideally I'd also like to handle names with two numbers "A35P56.txt"
and irregular string components (lowercase, say, "page310ch1.txt"),
but that's just a nice-to-have. - I might make use of 'sort'?)
 
Does 'sort -V' help?
Seems to work with both spaces and newlines.

Yes, that would help like 'ls -v' does (presuming it behaves similar;
I haven't extensively tried 'sort -V' yet). (But using 'ls | sort -V'
is not that terse like 'ls -v'.) The problem with both external tools
is (as outlined upthread) the post-processing of the tool-generated
list of data in shell context. So both tools take some burden from
me (the sorting aspect is simply covered by an option), but doesn't
help me how I can safely post-process the identified items. (A shell
built-in could natively better, i.e. simpler and more consistently,
address that.)

Janis