From d1e7e3c7931410f6705f7f89f03c580380a354f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Paul=20H=C3=A4nsch?= <paul@plutz.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 21:02:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] stable sort (keep name order when sorting by lenght)

---
 indexmeta.sh | 6 +++---
 list.sh      | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/indexmeta.sh b/indexmeta.sh
index aad3fc1..fb893e1 100644
--- a/indexmeta.sh
+++ b/indexmeta.sh
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ meta_purge(){
   name="$(meta_name "$file")"
 
   if [ -d "${meta%/meta}" ] && LOCK "$meta"; then
-    grep -avF "	${name}" "$meta" >"$meta.tmp"
-    grep -aF "	${name}" "$meta" >>"$meta.trash"
-    mv "$meta.tmp" "$meta"
+    grep -avF "	${name}" "$meta" >"${meta}.tmp"
+    grep -aF "	${name}" "$meta" >>"${meta}.trash"
+    mv "${meta}.tmp" "$meta"
     RELEASE "$meta"
   fi
 }
diff --git a/list.sh b/list.sh
index 950522f..08cef51 100644
--- a/list.sh
+++ b/list.sh
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ list_order(){
       fi
       ln="$name"
     done \
-    | sort -n -k1 |cut -f2- |sed 's;^;metashort\t;;'
+    | sort -sn -k1 |sed -r 's;^[0-9]+\t;metashort\t;;'
   elif [ $ORDER = Length ]; then
-    sort -n -k1 |sed 's;^;metashort\t;;'
+    sort -sn -k1 |sed 's;^;metashort\t;;'
   elif [ $ORDER = Date ]; then
     while read -r fm; do
       sn="${fm##*	}"
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ list_order(){
       printf '%i	%s	%s\n' \
              "$(stat -c %Y "$fn")" "${fm%	*}" "$fn"
     done \
-    | sort -rn -k1 |sed -r 's;^[0-9]+\t;metalong\t;;'
+    | sort -srn -k1 |sed -r 's;^[0-9]+\t;metalong\t;;'
   fi
 }
 
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2.39.2