hi, can I tell to "ls" to list f 2

[w5000]

hi,
can I tell to "ls" to list files in the order they were given on the parameter list?

I mean instead of:

$ ls -al list_1 list_2 list_10
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_1
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_10
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_2

get:

$ ls -al list_1 list_2 list_10
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_1
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_2
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_10
$

until now I need to sort it like:

$ ls -al list_1 list_2 list_10|sort -n -t _ -k 2,2
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_1
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_2
-rw-r--r--    1 userx  staff              0 Nov 19 19:18 list_10
$

can the sort (or any other extra) command be omited and use "some" embedded ls feature to achieve this?

 

[PHV]

What about this ?
ls -al list_1; ls -al list_2; ls -al list_10

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[SamBones]

If they were created in the correct order chronologically, you can use "-tr" to sort them by time.

$ touch list_1
$ touch list_2
$ touch list_10
$ ls -l list_*
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_1
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_10
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_2
$ ls -ltr list_*
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_1
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_2
-rw-r--r--   1 userx    staff          0 Nov 21 13:36 list_10

 

[Annihilannic]

On what OS? On Linux you can use ls -U to do this. I think this is a GNU extension... at least it's not available on HP-UX, I haven't looked on any other OS.

Annihilannic
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