On 27 October 2014 13:48, M. Fioretti <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-10-27 07:41, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> I have a workaround that should let you finish your task for now, and >> let you handle the issue with dolphin later. I would suggest install >> one of the light weight filemanagers where the sorting is like ls; my >> recommendation: Thunar (from XFCE), or pcmanfm (from LXDE). >> >> Hope this helps, > > > it helps as a temporary workaround, yes. I'd really, really prefer to use > Dolphin/ > Konqueror/Gwenview for this (Konqueror would be best, actually, as I can > split it > in as many sub-windows as I want, and see images "inline", that is in full > sub-window instead of opening yet one more window). But in the meantime, > pcmanfm it is, is an improvement anyway for this part of the work. > > Still looking for a real patch to konqueror/dolphin, of course. Making them > work as needed through some COLLATE/LOCALE env variables would be perfect, > but it seems thouroughly undocumented (even the mere fact that it could > work, or not) > Try this (on a copy of the files!): for F in * ; do mv $F $(echo $F|sed -r -es'/^([0-9]{6})([0-9])/\1-\2/' -es'/^([0-9]{4})([0-9])/\1-\2/') ; done It'll rename 19350530-aunt-jane.jpg to 1935-05-30-aunt-jane.jpg and 194104-elvis.jpg to 1941-04-elvis.jpg, which will give them the right sort order both in ls and sorts that compare numbers. Don't have a Fedora to hand, but on RHEL I can't persuade nautilus to obey LC_COLLATE despite setting the environment and trying various files under /etc. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org