How to copy files in alphabetic order.

Lex Hider lex.hider at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 03:12:26 UTC 2005


still doesn't copy it in alphabetic order.

This seems to work:

find path/to/dir | cpio -vp /path/to/iRiver

On 23/11/05, Scott J. Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
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> Lex Hider wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Anyone have any tips on how to copy a directory and get the contents
> > to be copied in alphabetic order,
> >
> > The reason I am asking is because my USB iRiver mplayer plays files in
> > order  copied.
> >
> > so songs like:
> > 01-foo.mp3
> > 02-bam.mp3
> > 03.song.mp3
> >
> > might get copied in any order.
> >
>
> find /path/to/files.mp3 | cpio -p /path/to/iriver/
>
>
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