sorting pathnames by basename

[Kevin D. Clark]

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

> Fix your box :-)

Point taken, although I try to write portable code, and as such, I
will always be a little bit conservative when I am using sed.

> > 2:  Those options to sort don't work on my Linux box.
> 
>     Really?  They work on mine.  What `sort` do you have?  Mine's from
> a textutils-2.0e-8 RPM.  All options I used are part of UNIX 98
> (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/sort.html).

$ rpm -q -f /bin/sort
textutils-2.0.21-1

> > 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.
> 
> Nope, you've just forced the pathname to contain a '/'.  But here's
> a simplified version that I think will work around your issues for
> non-UNIX 98 compliant machines:
> 
> sed -e 's;\(.*/\)*\(.*\);\2/\1\2;' | sort -f -d -t / +0 | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;;'

My example, derived from yours, seems to work, as well as your new
solution.

Regards,

--kevin
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