Timeline for macOS Catalina - how to set up Finder to use file sorting logic same as ls command (alphabetical order, not "natural")?
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 13:16 | comment | added | errata | Thank you for all explanations, but none of them actually answers the question - how to make Finder sort alphabetically instead of using "natural" sort order? | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 21:11 | comment | added | anki | @errata See natural sort on wikipedia | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 18:24 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2019 at 18:23 | comment | added | Tetsujin |
I think what Terminal is doing is sorting numbers like they were letters, so like e would sort after aabbaccd so 6 sorts after 2655522
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| Nov 13, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | errata | Thanks for explaining! In my every day's work, Finder's logic is just confusing and not helpful at all, so I'd like to instruct Finder not to sort them that way. I hope that's possible somehow. Unfortunately, prepending zeros is not an option at this point. | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 18:16 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |