Re: Sorting using two field separators

[Daniel Mills]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 1:19 PM tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 4:59 PM, tolugboji via <help-bash@gnu.org>
> wrote:
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> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> > On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 4:47 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev
> fxmbsw7@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > maybe go a sideway, convert the filenames batchly into has-one-sep,
> then sort, then change back
> > >
>
> I can use awk to use two field delimiters.  But this still requires a
> little tweak to
> handle possibility of newlines.
>
> find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 |
>   awk -F'[-.]' '{print $(NF-1), $0}' |
>   sort -znk 1,1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-
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>
>
 A second separator isn't needed here anyway, sort will just go by the
numbers and ignore the rest afterward.