shutil is my personal collection of shellscripts that I use while building my projects. It is available on github. Feel free to leave a comment, create a ticket or do a pull request if you have suggestions :)

natsort

Sorts input lines on stdin in the natural order, as defined by the natsort() function from PHP.

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# ls with natsort
$ ls | natsort
file_1.png
file_2.png
file_3.png
file_11.png
file_12.png
file_13.png
file_14.png

# Compared to the default sort order
$ ls | sort
file_1.png
file_11.png
file_12.png
file_13.png
file_14.png
file_2.png
file_3.png

lsort

Equivalent to ls <pattern> | xargs basename | natsort.

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$ lsort /tmp/demo/*.png
file_1.png
file_2.png
file_3.png
file_11.png
file_12.png
file_13.png
file_14.png

shutils_install.sh

Small installer that will add the shutils directory to your path, in the ~/.bash_profile of your user.