How to sort strings that contain a common prefix and suffix numerically from Bash?

Question

Here is a list of files:

some.string_100_with_numbers.in-it.txt
some.string_101_with_numbers.in-it.txt
some.string_102_with_numbers.in-it.txt
some.string_23_         


        

Answer 1

Use ls -lv

From the man page:

-v     natural sort of (version) numbers within text