Re: Why from there?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Thu, 14 May 1998 20:27:33 +0100 (BST)


Hi there.

> A final gripe: Why oh why aren't the files numbered with zero
> padding, e.g:

> linux-2.1.08.tar.gz
> linux-2.1.09.tar.gz
> linux-2.1.10.tar.gz

> instead of:

> linux-2.1.1.tar.gz
> linux-2.1.10.tar.gz
> linux-2.1.2.tar.gz

> Am I the only one annoyed by this? Does everybody else know about
> an undocumented switch to "ls", FTP "dir" and globbing which sorts
> numerically? It seems such a trivial thing to do....

> (And perhaps one more number level for pre-kernels?)

Personally, I take advantage of the fact that later kernel versions
usually have a later timestamp and do...

Q> ls -alrS

...which quite happily lists the latest version at the end of the
list. This works quite happily with a Linus-based ftp server at the
far end, and has just been added to the Minix ls command, so should
soon work with Minix-based ftp servers as well..

Best wishes from Riley.

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