Re: Loop with files coming through sorted by name

[Daniel Mills]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 12:17 PM tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Saturday, October 16th, 2021 at 1:31 PM, Greg Wooledge <
> greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 08:31:04PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> >
> > > You can thus do
> > >
> > > readarray -d "" myarray < <$(find . -type f -print0 | sort -zn)
> > >
> > > for i in "${myarray[@]}"; do
> > >
> > > arbitrary shell stuff with "$i"
> > > ===============================
> > >
> > > done
> >
> > You've got an extraneous $ in there. It's <(find...) not <$(find...).
>
>
> In general, files are described by
>
> ${fnam}-NUM.png
>
> Would it be possible to sort the files by number if I have the situation
>
> schimmel-1.png
> schimmel-2.png
> ...
> schimmel-13.png
>
> The number of png files could be in the thousands.
>
>
find ... -print0 | sort -zt '-' -k 2,2n | while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
...