Re: Feature Request: List files/directories lexicographically

[Kamil Dudka]

On Tuesday 31 of March 2009 16:58:19 Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Adam Gordon wrote:
> >> This seems like it would be a simple feature and while it may overlap
> >> with (or be slightly redundant to) the sort command, sorting
> >> lexicographically, i.e., foo1, foo2, foo10, foo20 instead of foo1,
> >> foo10, foo2, foo20, would be a nice feature to have.
> >
> > Does `ls -v` do what you want?
>
> Adam confirmed privately that `ls -v` does as he wants.
> However he said the man page was very terse and he missed it.
>
> How about changing:
>   -v sort by version
> to one of these?
>   -v natural sort of (version) numbers within text
>
> If so I'll change sort --help similarly.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Kamil