sorting files in a directory
 

Hi,

I have some files in a directory like

file1.txt
file10.txt
file2.txt
file11.txt

I want to sort it to

file1.txt
file2.txt
file10.txt
file11.txt

How to do that..?

I tried like

ls -1 *.txt | sort

But it gave like

file10.txt
file11.txt
file1.txt
file2.txt

Can anyone help me..

Thanks
Shyju N

Try -v (--sort=version) option

% ls -1 -v *.txt

The files are sorted to character order - but you want them in numerical order.
When you number files, put in the leading zeros.
http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2009/...sing-bash.html

it worked..

thanks
Shyju N

that's sounds interesting

Cool!

... um

... what worked?