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Always Reverse Alphabetical?
Authored by: cbseven on Jul 20, '02 11:46:48AM

A great hint...and so obvious!

I'm surprised that I never tried this. I'm always needing to operate on a list of files one at a time, and have always created a checklist by writing down the filenames on [gasp] paper.

It seems however, that the pasted list is always (?) in reverse alphabetical order, regardless of the finder window sort order. Am I missing something?



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Always Reverse Alphabetical?
Authored by: mervTormel on Jul 20, '02 11:54:28AM

list properly sorted here.



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You can do it with the shell, too.
Authored by: jules on Jul 21, '02 11:31:43AM
Bring up the Terminal and find the directory you're interested in. Type: ls -c | sort | pbcopy Now the filenames are on the clipboard. The ls command is potentially more interesting as you can pull out just, say, doc files (if you label your goodies with suffixes of types): ls -c *.doc | sort | pbcopy

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