Hi Brian,
On 2023-08-22 01:45, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I am in favour of all punctuation being treated as word spaces and sorting
> "cat ..." before "cat..." but find the real orders more evocative and easier to
> decide about than examples.
Here's an excerpt of how treating - and _ as spaces looks like. I think
it's a reasonable order. Should I apply that diff?
Cheers,
Alex
$ git diff
diff --git a/scripts/sortman b/scripts/sortman
index a8f70bab5..6d1d92f09 100755
--- a/scripts/sortman
+++ b/scripts/sortman
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ sed -E '/\/intro./ s/.*\.([[:digit:]])/\10\t&/' \
| sed -E ' s/\t(.*)/&\n\1/' \
| sed -E '/\t/ s/\.[[:digit:]]([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]]*)?\>.*//' \
| sed -E '/\t/ s/\/[_-]*/\//g' \
-| sed -E '/\t/ s/[_-]/_/g' \
+| sed -E '/\t/ s/[_-]/ /g' \
| sed -E '/\t/ {N;s/\n/\t/;}' \
| sort -fV -k1,2 \
| cut -f3;
$ touch man8/ld-z.8
$ touch man8/ld.8
$ find man8 | ./scripts/sortman
man8/intro.8
man8/iconvconfig.8
man8/ld.8
man8/ld-linux.8
man8/ld-linux.so.8
man8/ld-z.8
man8/ld.so.8
man8/ldconfig.8
man8/nscd.8
man8/sln.8
man8/tzselect.8
man8/zdump.8
man8/zic.8
man8
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