Re: Moving rc.d scripts to base.tgz

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> I found that amusing, because it was just a day or two ago I added a
>> new option to (my) ls.  (I made it sort numbers numerically rather
>> than lexicographically [...].)
> Neat.  This sounds like a job for sort(1). :-)

Someone else said basically the same thing to me off-list.

Perhaps.  If you can tell me what command line to use to get sort(1) to
turn the input

        maze3.c
        base-2-21.gif
        Makefile
        base-2-104.gif
        base-1-44.pgm
        base-1-44.gif.tmp
        maze2.c
        base-1-9.pgm+
        maze11.c

into

        Makefile
        base-1-9.pgm+
        base-1-44.gif.tmp
        base-1-44.pgm
        base-2-21.gif
        base-2-104.gif
        maze2.c
        maze3.c
        maze11.c

(which is what the new code does), I'll be interested.  (Command lines
which are dependent on the exact input, of the +0.0 -0.1 +0.5n -0.6
+0.7n -1 ilk, need not apply.)  If you can tell me how to make it do so
and then columnize the result to

        Makefile      base-1-44.gif.tmp base-2-71.gif  maze2.c maze11.c
        base-1-9.pgm+ base-1-44.pgm     base-2-104.gif maze3.c

(which is a cut-and-paste copy of output from my new ls, edited only to
provide the initial tab) I'll be _really_ interested.  If you can also
make it ignore ls -F decorations, so that "foo foo% foo+" with foo
executable turns into "foo* foo% foo+" rather than "foo% foo* foo+",
but if the file is named foo* and is not executable it sorts the latter
way...

...then I'll agree there may be no need for the new code.

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