From: P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk
To: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: <> doesn't sort numerically
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 08:14:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438.9511130814@pygmy.swan.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "steve@miranova.com"'s message of "12 Nov 95 20:45:14 PST." <m2ka55jf6t.fsf@diana.miranova.com>
steve@miranova.com wrote:
> (zsh 2.6 beta 9).
>
> I've noticed that <> doesn't appear to order the expanded files in
> numeric order. Eg. <> in a directory containing 1 2 4 9 24 will
> expand as 1 2 24 4 9. This isn't completely useful behavior.
> The only workaround I've found is to use a succession of ? ?? ???, etc.
You have to set the option `numericglobsort'. This actually means you
get the same result however the numbers are matched, with * or <> for
example. I think this was some unusual attempt at consistency.
Perhaps it's actually a bit counterintuitive. Would it actually be
more sensible for <> always to produce globbing in numerical order? I
haven't looked at the source but presumably it's not too hard.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> Tel: +49 33762 77366
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77330
Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen
DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.
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