On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Angus Mezick wrote:
>George, try it. it works. what is ls alias'd to for you?
>Does you echo statment send them in numeric order or:
>
>1.trg
>10.trg
>100.trg
>101.trg
>11.trg
>2.trg
>20.trg
>201.trg
>21.trg
Hrm, nevermind. 'ls' automatically unspaces them when going to a file
instead of the tty or a pipe. Strange proggies, my fault. :)
You might've needed a 'sort -n' in my line. I tested it on non-numerical
stuff.
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