Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

DUH ;/
I was so focused on lsblk demonstrating with its graphical output that 
it COULD do what I wanted that I didn't think about an external sort,
Thank you



On 01/08/2019 11:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Richard Owlett
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:56:39
> > From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
> > To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Subject: Taming the "lsblk" command
> > Resent-Date: Tue,  8 Jan 2019 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC)
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
> > When I do
> >   >lsblk -o name,label
> > I get a nice graphical result in _STRICT_  *ALPHA_NUMERIC* order.
> >
> > However when I do > lsblk -l -o name,label
> > I get > sdc14 good-fvwm
> >   > sdc15 tst_mysql
> >   > sde
> >   > sde1  debian-2-go
> >   > sr0
> >   > sdc16 tst_mariadb
> >   > sdc17 dummy
> >   > sdc18 target
> >
> > I wish to feed the output of "lsblk -l -o name,label" to a script which
> > *DEPENDS* on input being in strict alpha-numeric order.
> >
> > How?
> > TIA