sorting files in a directory

Shyju N · 01-06-2010, 08:32 AM

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

stefansbv · 01-06-2010, 08:49 AM

Try -v (--sort=version) option

% ls -1 -v *.txt

Simon Bridge · 01-06-2010, 08:51 AM

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

Shyju N · 01-06-2010, 08:54 AM

it worked..

thanks
Shyju N

linuxplayer · 01-06-2010, 09:06 AM

that's sounds interesting

Simon Bridge · 01-06-2010, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shyju N

it worked..

thanks
Shyju N

Cool!

... um

... what worked?