Sorting a device list

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it
to the end manually using the
printf(1) utility like so:

# ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf
"/dev/ad10\n"

Does that help?

Oliver





On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com> wrote:

> I had tried that. It doesn't work:
>
> # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n
> /dev/ad10
> /dev/ad4
> /dev/ad6
> /dev/ad8
>
> I want the ad10 to appear last...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida at ceid.upatras.gr]
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM
> To: Peter Steele
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Sorting a device list
>
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com>
> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For
> example, if I do this:
> >
> > ls /dev/ad* | sort
> >
> > I get something like this:
> >
> > /dev/ad10
> > /dev/ad4
> > /dev/ad6
> > /dev/ad8
>
> Just use `sort -n':
>
>    ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n
>
> It should work fine even when there are non-numeric prefix strings.
>
>
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