Re: Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup

[Bob Proulx]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> My suggestion is that the software also rename the earlier backup
> files as follows: In each name, insert the digit zero (0) in front of
> the digit [1-9].  This will preserve the correct display order of the
> backups in a simple invocation of "ls -l" . This will make for a
> more cleanly ordered display up to 99 backups. 

Are you aware of the -v sort by version option for ls?  This will
usually sort the display as you desire by treating the filenames as
versioned named.

  ls -logv

Does that do what you want?

You can read more about version sorting in the ls documentation.

  info coreutils 'Sorting the output'

Bob