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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Sort
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.175913.26445@pinet.aip.org>
Date: 30 Aug 90 17:59:13 GMT
Organization: American Institute of Physics
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I am trying to sort a directory containing file names as follows:

	f002s0
	f002s1
	f002s3
	w002s0
	w002s1
	w002s3

I would like the files sorted on character positions 1-5, with character
position 0 (the f or w) in reverse, i.e., 

	w002s0
    f002s0
    w002s1
    f002s1, etc.

This does not seem like it should be so difficult, and I assume I'm missing
something in my understanding of sort. I can sort this on a non-Unix OS
without problems. What am I doing wrong?
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