I have a files which names are real numbers, both positive and negative. I need numerical order of files, like -1.0, -0.5,0.0, 0.5, 1.0 .... to make animation from the files
I have tried
ls -v1 -- *.pgm
but the result is
0.000000.pgm
0.080000.pgm
0.160000.pgm
0.240000.pgm
0.320000.pgm
0.400000.pgm
0.480000.pgm
0.560000.pgm
0.640000.pgm
0.720000.pgm
0.800000.pgm
0.880000.pgm
0.960000.pgm
1.040000.pgm
1.120000.pgm
1.200000.pgm
1.280000.pgm
1.360000.pgm
1.440000.pgm
1.520000.pgm
1.600000.pgm
1.680000.pgm
1.760000.pgm
1.840000.pgm
1.920000.pgm
2.000000.pgm
-0.080000.pgm
-0.160000.pgm
-0.240000.pgm
-0.320000.pgm
-0.400000.pgm
-0.480000.pgm
-0.560000.pgm
-0.640000.pgm
-0.720000.pgm
-0.800000.pgm
-0.880000.pgm
-0.960000.pgm
-1.040000.pgm
-1.120000.pgm
-1.200000.pgm
-1.280000.pgm
-1.360000.pgm
-1.440000.pgm
-1.520000.pgm
-1.600000.pgm
-1.680000.pgm
-1.760000.pgm
-1.840000.pgm
-1.920000.pgm
-2.000000.pgm
How can I do it?
You're looking for sort -g
"general numeric sort"
mapfile -t sorted_files < <(printf '%s\n' *.pgm | sort -g)
declare -p sorted_files