On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:10, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have a need to modify the directory sort order. I'm not currently trying > to swab the output; I want to actually modify the order in which files are > listed within the directory itself. > > Does anyone know how I can actually modify the contents of the directory > listing? >
No idea. I assume that the actual entry order is that returned by ls -f? Things I would try in the absence of further information is creating a directory and then hardlinking the files from the original dir into them in the order I wanted. If that works then you can rm the orig dir and mv the new one on top of it or I guess just mv ing the new onto the lod would probably do unless someone has built some optimizations into the mv command for files that are linked to the same file being mv ed over the old ones. If indeed ls -f works to see the order of the actual directory lisings, then this appears to work. here are the results of a quick test on a rh 6.0 box. [bhughes@compaq2 bhughes]$ mkdir bincopy [bhughes@compaq2 bhughes]$ for f in `ls bin/`;do ln bin/$f bincopy;done ln: bin/testbin: hard link not allowed for directory [bhughes@compaq2 bhughes]$ ls -f bin . testcp listout radarsave.pl cddistul .. sortrpmdate.pl listRPMSdir startXvfb testbin testout dirlist nohup.out pingosu cleanRPMSdir deletelist addAdvertiser.pl [bhughes@compaq2 bhughes]$ ls -f bincopy . cleanRPMSdir listout sortrpmdate.pl .. deletelist nohup.out startXvfb addAdvertiser.pl dirlist pingosu testcp cddistul listRPMSdir radarsave.pl testout It appears that the order of the files are now in alphabetical order. permissions are not carried across though but you get the idea of my lame hack. Now for the obvious question, why do you care? are you mad because php won't buzz a directory in any sorted order? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
