Bash Sort like Windows 'natural sort order'

Question

I\'ve got a bunch of PDFs that I\'m trying to append together, and I\'ve got a program that, given a list of files, will append them to one PDF.

The issue I\'m havi

Answer 1

Assuming you're using GNU sort, use the-V option:

   -V, --version-sort
          natural sort of (version) numbers within text

For your input, it'd produce:

test1.pdf
test2.pdf
test10.pdf