Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Thursday 19 March 2009 11:27:11 Sven Joachim wrote: >> While the ordering of hidden files in "ls -v" seems to be fixed >> now, there are still inconsistencies. Here's what I get in the latest >> snapshot: >> >> ,---- >> >> | LANG=C /usr/local/src/coreutils-7.1.63-8e6a6/src/ls -alv >> | total 0 >> | drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 160 Mar 19 11:13 . >> | drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 200 Mar 19 11:15 .. >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a~ >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a.b >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a.bc >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a.b~ >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 0 Mar 19 11:13 a.bc~ >> >> `---- >> >> Note that a~ sorts before a, but a.b~ after a.b. >> >> Regards, >> Sven > > > Thanks again! The file suffix regex doesn't match any suffix containing '~'. > > I've changed it this way: > /(\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)*$/ > /(\.[A-Za-z~][A-Za-z0-9~]*)*$/ > > Now it works correctly with simple and numbered backups. Simple patch > including clarifying test cases is attached.
Hi Kamil, Thanks for fixing that. Perhaps "~" isn't the only character we should treat that way. What do you think of these? $ printf '%s\n' a a_ a.b a.b_ a.bc a.bc_|sort -V : a a.b a.bc a.bc_ a.b_ a_ $ printf '%s\n' a a- a.b a.b- a.bc a.bc-|sort -V : a a.b a.bc a- a.bc- a.b-
