Question : Montage, xargs and a sorted ls

Hi *,

I'm trying to produce a montage (with montage) of many images I have. However, if I do as follows

montage -tile 24x24 * index.png

They are inserted in the same order as ls ... which returns as the follows:

2
20
21
3
30

which I do not want, therefore I can use

ls | sort -n

to order my files correctly, however, how can I then pipe/pass this list into montage. I use xargs for other purposes such as

find . ...... | xargs rm.

It pipes each line separately which is perfect for my previous uses however I now need to pipe the whole list into montage so it can produce the image.

Any suggestions?
James

Answer : Montage, xargs and a sorted ls

Try

montage -tile 24x24 $(ls | sort -n) index.png

wmp