Bash is really annoying me with the way that it sorts it's files with the sort command and can't seem to find a way around this. When I sort the files with GNOME though by name, it shows it exactly how I want. I'm trying to sort by real order but the 10's and 1's mess everything up when sorting in bash. Here's how bash sorts a sample of my files:
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I see what it's doing here, but is there anywhere to sort a list like this in bash how it SHOULD be sorted? With the numbers in real numerical order instead of this strange thing that it's doing.
Try
sort -k2 -t_ -n [file]
That will sort numerically (-n) on the 2nd field (-k2) using _ as the field separator (-t_).
(Shamelessly stolen from SuperUser)