releasetools/sort_set.sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 #
   3 # kinda natural sorting for sets
   4 # prepend every line with a modified path where
   5 # slashes are replaced by "1" and "0" is added
   6 # at the end of the string.
   7 #
   8 # entry
   9 #  ./bin/cat minix-sys
  10 # becomes
  11 #.1bin1cat0 ./bin/cat minix-sys
  12 #
  13 # This entry gets sorted after wich the key is removed using
  14 # cut
  15 #
  16 # Additionally all lines starting with "#" are put on
  17 # top in the order they where put in the file. this is done
  18 # by creating a "key" with the value COUNTER
  19 #
  20 COUNTER=10000
  21 while read i
  22 do
  23         A=$(echo $i | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed "s,^#,00$COUNTER,g" | sed 's,/,1,g' )
  24         echo "${A}0 $i"
  25         COUNTER=$(($COUNTER +1))
  26 done  | sort | cut -d ' ' -f 2-