Re: Feature Request: List files/directories lexicographically

[Jim Meyering]

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 of March 2009 16:58:19 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> > Adam Gordon wrote:
>> >> This seems like it would be a simple feature and while it may overlap
>> >> with (or be slightly redundant to) the sort command, sorting
>> >> lexicographically, i.e., foo1, foo2, foo10, foo20 instead of foo1,
>> >> foo10, foo2, foo20, would be a nice feature to have.
>> >
>> > Does `ls -v` do what you want?
>>
>> Adam confirmed privately that `ls -v` does as he wants.
>> However he said the man page was very terse and he missed it.
>>
>> How about changing:
>>   -v sort by version
>> to one of these?
>>   -v natural sort of (version) numbers within text
>>
>> If so I'll change sort --help similarly.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.

Ditto.  Thanks!