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From: Jérémie Roquet <jroquet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 'for' sorted?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:26:21 +0200
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Hi,

Le jeu. 22 sept. 2022 à 17:20, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>      for var in /dev/sd*; do
>      ...
>
> Apart from capturing the output and then sorting it, is is possible for
> 'for' to go thru the input in a sorted way?  I doubt it but she moves in
> mysterious ways so it might just be doable.

Lexical order:

  for var in /dev/sd*(on); do

To see the available sort specifiers, use:

    for var in /dev/sd*(o<tab>

Best regards,

-- 
Jérémie

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