[arch-general] A repo-add replacement?

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 19:02, PyroPeter <abi1789 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That does indeed seem to work.  Thanks! :-)

/M

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