Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried that:
> 
> % bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk<1-19>.bz2<TAB>
> 
> and obtained:
> 
> bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk10.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-b
> k11.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk12.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk13.bz2 ../patch-2.6.
> 9-rc1-bk14.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk15.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk16.bz2 ../pat
> ch-2.6.9-rc1-bk17.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk18.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk19.bz2
>  ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk2.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk3
> .bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk4.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk5.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1
> -bk6.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk7.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk8.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9
> -rc1-bk9.bz2
> 
> which really suprised my as I thought the whole point of the <-> pattern
> was to allow for an ordered sequence to be returned (contrary to a
> simple *).
> 
> Am I mistaken in that belief?

Yes.  However, you can set the option numeric_glob_sort.  A quick test
suggests completion will obey this, which does what you want.  Note that
that's independent of how the matches were generated, however, so
replacing <1-19> with * wouldn't change the result.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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