Re: Loop with files coming through sorted by name

[Dennis Williamson]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 9:47 PM Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 9:07 PM tolugboji via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> I have a list of image files and want to pass them in a loop with files
>> coming through sorted by name.
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>> Have seen this approach
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>> for
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>> filename
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>> in
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>> `ls | sort -n`
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>> Are backticks still a good way to do this, as currently things are
>> shifting towards $().
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> Bash sorts filenames lexically when using globs.
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> for file in *
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> does what you want without needing to use the sort utility and without
> involving ls. It works even if filenames contain spaces or newlines - just
> make sure you quote the variable when you're using its value
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> You don't need command substitution as a result, but when you do always
> use $() and never use backticks.
>

Oh, by the way, sort -n sorts numerically - not by name. If that's
actually what you're doing then you should use the find ... print0 |
sort-zn form.

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