[arch-general] A repo-add replacement?

[PyroPeter]

On 02/10/2011 07:03 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> repo-add repo.db.tar.gz `find . -name "*.pkg.tar.gz" | sort`
>
> That is in fact broken, because it sorts just like 'ls *':
>
>    % ls *.pkg.tar.gz
>    foo-1.2.3.1-1.pkg.tar.gz  foo-1.2.3-1.pkg.tar.gz
>    % find . -name \*.pkg.tar.gz|sort
>    ./foo-1.2.3.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
>    ./foo-1.2.3-1.pkg.tar.gz
>
> /M

It turns out GNU sort has a switch for sorting version numbers :-P

$ find . -name \*.pkg.tar.gz | sort -V

should work.

Regards, PyroPeter
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