Unix s ls sort by name

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Can you sort an ls listing by name

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You can try  ls -lru -u with -lt  sort by  and show  access time

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From the man page  for bash ls       Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort

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ls -X works for that purpose  in case you have aliased ls to a more useful default

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My ls sorts by name by default  What are you seeing   man ls states   List information about the FILEs  the current directory by default    Sort entries alpha-betically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified

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The beauty of  nix tools is you can combine them   ls -l   sort -k9 9   The output of ls -l will look like this  -rw-rw-r-- 1 luckydonald luckydonald  532 Feb 21  2017 Makefile -rwxrwxrwx 1 luckydonald luckydonald 4096 Nov 17 23 47 file txt   So with 9 9 you sort column 9 up to the column 9  being the file names  You have to provide where to stop  which is the same column in this case  The columns start with 1   Also  if you want to ignore upper lower case  add --ignore-case to the sort command

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NOTICE   a  comes AFTER  Z      touch A txt aa txt Z txt     ls  A txt   Z txt   aa txt

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In Debian Jessie  this works nice   ls -lah --group-directories-first    l use a long listing format   a do not ignore entries starting with     h human readable   --group-directories-first  obvious    Note  add -r for reverse alpha    You might consider using lh by appending to    bashrc as the alias     echo  alias lh  ls -lah --group-directories-first    gt  gt    bashrc   -- restart your terminal before using lh command --

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Files being different only by a numerical string can be sorted on this number at the condition that it is preceded by a separator   In this case  the following syntax can be used   ls -x1 file   sort -t  lt char gt   -n -k2   Example   ls -1 TRA log   sort -t    -n -k2  TRACE 1 log TRACE 2 log TRACE 3 log TRACE 4 log TRACE 5 log TRACE 6 log TRACE 7 log TRACE 8 log TRACE 9 log TRACE 10 log

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The ls utility should conform to IEEE Std 1003 1-2001  POSIX 1  which states   22027  it shall sort directory and non-directory operands separately according to the collating sequence in the current locale  26027  By default  the format is unspecified  but the output shall be sorted alphabetically by symbol name   Library or object name  if -A is specified Symbol name Symbol type Value of the symbol The size associated with the symbol  if applicable

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Check your  bashrc file for aliases

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For something simple  you can combine ls with sort   For just a list of file names  ls -1   sort  To sort them in reverse order  ls -1   sort -r

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ls from coreutils performs a locale-aware sort by default  and thus may produce surprising results in some cases  for instance   foo will sort between bar and quux in LANG en US   If you want an ASCIIbetical sort  use  LANG C ls

[unix] Unix's 'ls' sort by name

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