sorting pathnames by basename

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com> writes:

> '/' is an illegal character in a filename, right?
> 
> sed -e 's;\(\(.*\)/\)*\(.*\);\3/\1\3;' | sort -fdt/k1 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/\(.*\);\1;'

This doesn't work for me for a number of reasons:

1:  sed is known to contain a number of bugs, and you're hitting one
    of them on my SVR4-derived Solaris box.  That first call to sed
    doesn't yield any changes.

2:  Those options to sort don't work on my Linux box.


Still, I see where you're going here.  How about this?

  sed -e 's;\(.*\)/\([^/]*\)$;\2/\1/\2;' | sort -t / +0 | sed 's;[^/]*/;;'

This works on the various Unix boxen that I have at my disposal.

Regards,

--kevin
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