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Greetings,

are there any means of functions that can be used so that the dir output or equivilent would order the files in human order hence:

currently if you have a directory with files named such as file1 thru 30,
the dir would list and sort by the first number and not in number sequence.

i need for the output to be in sequence,

any ideas?

Matice,

Go to "Batch Files" "11 - Sorting text with numbers" and download the sortn.bat file.
http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeBatchFiles.php#_Toc145951142

Then from a command line pipe the output of a dir command into sortn.bat like this:



Make sure sortn.bat is accessible if not use the full path name e.g.:


This was a nice exercice
Does it solve your problem?

I must hand it to you, you did a great job with that. you are the GURU!

here is a next question!
in bash one can perform a sequence in loops, can the same be done in dos?

something like
instead of
for %%I in ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do echo %%I
have something like
for %%I in (inc 1 9) do echo %%I

regards
Matice

DosItHelp wrote:Matice,

Go to "Batch Files" "11 - Sorting text with numbers" and download the sortn.bat file.
http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeBatchFiles.php#_Toc145951142

Then from a command line pipe the output of a dir command into sortn.bat like this:

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dir /b|sortn

Make sure sortn.bat is accessible if not use the full path name e.g.:

Code: Select all

dir /b|c:\sortn

This was a nice exercice
Does it solve your problem?

Try:

No problem:
for /L %%I in (1,1,9) do echo %%I