Re: Bug#258262: ITP: sortdir -- wrapper program to make files show up in sorted order

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

Great. Very useful indeed.

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Robert Lemmen wrote:

> * Package name    : sortdir
>   Version         : 0.4
>   Upstream Author : Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
> * URL             : http://download.uhulinux.hu/sources/sortdir/
> * License         : LGPL
>   Description     : wrapper program to make files show up in sorted order
>
> This small wrapper program will make other programs see files and
> directories in a consistent, sorted order. This is e.g. usefull if you
> want your tarballs to be a bit more rsyncable.

Is this a better description?

This is a small wrapper library (libsortdir.so) which, via an
LD_PRELOAD, can be used to make any? other program see files and
directories in a consistent, sorted order.

A simple shell script wrapper over libsortdir is also provided.


Cheers,
Cristian