On 8/21/18 11:53 AM, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 08/21/18 at 10:15am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
- dotfiles can be automatically printed *and the C locale sorts them first* with a single ** glob
The glob will sort dotfiles before alphanumeric names, but there are several characters that will still sort before a period.
Eh. In the wise words of dreisner (when I asked if I should amend it to fix that): yes technically if someone were to create a root directory starting with ! " # $ & % ' ( ) * + , - it would sort before the dotfiles the day someone does that, i'll perfect my implementation of stabbing people over standard tcp/ip connections. I rather agree, since none of those filenames are remotely sane, at least not as direct children of / -- which is why this matters, since our sorting goal is IIRC just to ensure our metadata dotfiles are the most efficient files to extract. If that fails... oh well, some crazy person's package will have somewhat less efficiently extracted metadata. Although, this could be fixed I guess with: printf '%s\0' .!(|.); printf '%s\0' !(.*) */** | sort -uz -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User