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Quirky

This might do it:

Code:

find . -type f -print0 | sort -z -n  | xargs -0 cp --target-directory='/tmp'

Or if not, another hacky way is to replace the space with a character, then return it to a space before doing the copy. Like this:

Code:

for i in $( ls *.mp3 | sort -n | sed 's% %~%g') ; do  echo "${i/~/ }" ; cp "${i/~/ }" /tmp/  ; done

That depends on the fact that your file doesn't have a "~" in it, which is why it is hacky.

June 25th, 2006	#7
Quirky A Carafe of Ubuntu Join Date: Sep 2005 Beans: 86	Re: bash: Copying files in an Alphabetic order This might do it: Code: find . -type f -print0 \| sort -z -n \| xargs -0 cp --target-directory='/tmp' Or if not, another hacky way is to replace the space with a character, then return it to a space before doing the copy. Like this: Code: for i in $( ls *.mp3 \| sort -n \| sed 's% %~%g') ; do echo "${i/~/ }" ; cp "${i/~/ }" /tmp/ ; done That depends on the fact that your file doesn't have a "~" in it, which is why it is hacky.