well artist gave essentially a un*x golf solution. I'll recast it and comment on a couple tricks.
first 'echo */' (or print) is a good way of getting directories if you are using a posix shell.
% echo dir*/ | xargs -n1 | sort -rnt- -k2,3 | perl -lne 'print if $. =
+=2'
the 'echo */ | xargs -n1' can be seen as a poor man's transpose. It is useful if you know your paths! spaces don't work directly ...and xargs understands some quoting
In the end it is safer to use:
% NL='
> '
% (IFS="$NL"; for i in dir*/; do echo $i; done) |
> sort -rnt- -k2,3 | perl -lne 'print if $. ==2'
% steph@ape (/home/stephan/t) %
% cat dirdata
dir-100-1
dir-100-10
dir-100-2
dir-100-9
dir-100-99
dir-2-1
dir-28-1
dir-29-1
dir-29-2
dir-30-1
dir-3-1
% steph@ape (/home/stephan/t) %
% cat dirdata | sort -nt- -k2,3
dir-2-1
dir-3-1
dir-28-1
dir-29-1
dir-29-2
dir-30-1
dir-100-1
dir-100-10
dir-100-2
dir-100-9
dir-100-99
% steph@ape (/home/stephan/t) %
% cat dirdata | sort -rnt- -k2,3 | perl -lne 'print if $. == 2'
dir-100-9
cheers
--stephan
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