Re: [hylafax-users] Anyway to control the order that faxstat lists them modems?

[John Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even sort -n  can't handle the sequence when the numeric field is not  
the same size and follows text.

Oh well, I'll just have to live with it.


On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> * John Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [070914 14:21]:
> > True you can do it that way but the sort is not right when some of
> > the tty have one digit and some have two, i.e., ttyS5 and ttyS10.
>
> sort -n does numerical sorting.
>
> > It just seems like there just may be a list that faxstat is using
> > which could be edited that might change the order but maybe not and
> > sort is the best one can do.
>
> It takes them in the order the underlying FS keeps them in its
> opendir/readdir/sequence.  Most Linux FS *used* to keep them in the
> order they were created (so when we opendir/readdir, they were  
> returned
> in file creation order).  But modern Linux FS's no longer always  
> return
> them in creation order - they store them in hashes and tree's that
> provide much faster access and higher scalability, but don't keep the
> original creation order.
>
> a.
>
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