On 9 Jun 2010, at 12:10, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
> Interesting. My files are always sorted OK when grepping. Probably because
> I use globs to specify them, and name them with iso dates yyyy-mm-dd, which
> naturally sort properly. Still, this is a useful enhancement.
If you have log files named something like main.log, main.log.1 ... main.log.20
then this change will break things for you if you so something like
exigrep ... main.log.[5-9] main.log.1[0-2]
and worse, you can't work round it - you either have to change the
filenames, or modify the script.
I think invisibly re-ordering command line arguments is a bad idea.
Nigel.
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