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Re: Glob sort specifier ideas

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From: Jonathan Hankins <jonathan-hankins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Glob sort specifier ideas
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:44:01 -0600
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Sender: Jonathan Hankins <jonathan-hankins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Jonathan Hankins <jonathan-hankins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> would work like sort and the "cmp" or "<=>" operators in perl, taking
> 2 files as arguments, returning -1, 0 or 1 file1 is "less than",
> "equal to" or "greater than" file2 in the sort order.

Oops, wouldn't work for shell code -- would need to put 2 file names
into reply[1] and reply[2], similar to the usage of the reply variable
in the e:string: glob specifier.

>   for x in *.arj(oe:myfunc:); do arj x base_dir $x; done
>
> Where myfunc would get called repeatedly as "myfunc file1.arj
> file2.arj"

Same thing here.

-Jonathan Hankins

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