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Difficulty performing complex sorting when listing files in a directory with the ls command
The behavior I'm seeking is a nested sort with the ls command where sorting by one method doesn't cancel out sorting by a second method. The exact desired behavior is essentially:
First sort with ...
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Extract files in order by numbers at end of filename (windows)
I want to use a Windows .bat file to extract a number of files in a folder.
I have files with numbers at the end of filename, just before the extension, and I need to extract them in order of these ...
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UNIX or Linux sort: only sort on the first part of an entry
I'm working on a complicated grep, something like grep -E -i "first|next" *.txt, and I get results like:
logs.10.txt:2022-10-07 10:33:05.6673 | ClassName | [Info] | Inside function first(), ...
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How to sort text by last column?
This command
udisksctl status
with Ubuntu 20.04.3 gives:
MODEL REVISION SERIAL DEVICE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Why does the `ls` command sort files like this?
As I was trying to reverse engineer the ls command, I came upon an interesting behavior. When I make 3 files, foo.png, foopa.png, and fooqa.png, ls sorts them as foopa.png, foo.png, and fooqa.png. I ...
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How do I take the stdout of two commands and pipe them as two args into sort?
I can do the following:
sort -nbms file1.txt file2.txt
and it will merge the two already sorted files.
What I wish to do is take the output from two commands (its sorted) and pipe it in as input ...
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Linux version sort; letters first
GNU sort -V is great for sorting IP adresses. Unfortunately it throws all lines with leading letters (as opposed to numbers) to the bottom of the pile. Is there a way around it?
Note:
• 192.168.0.103 ...
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Sort all files in a folder independently, with an output file for each
I have several folders that contain numerous text files, ranging from tens to 100s. These text files are simple databases containing millions of lines, with each line containing a single record. ...
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Sort with case-sensitivity in macOS in the Terminal
I am trying to use the answer in GNU Sort by case-sensitive to sort a file in my Mac OS.
My file.txt looks like this:
"Best"
"A"
"BEST"
In the second answer to the mentioned question, it says that ...
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Windows CLI: sort text file by column
I'd like to sort a text file by the 3rd column of data, not the 3rd character, using pure Windows CLI commands. The commands would be put into a batch file.
The data would look something like
#...
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Sort packs of lines alphabetically
Note: the complementary question is here: How to separately sort lines within multiple “chunks” separated with headers?
So what I did find an answer to, is how to sort lines in a text files ...
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How to get files ordered by name with `dir`?
This used to be really easy in the old OS's.
dir /o:n >> list.txt
for %a in (`list.txt`) do copy %a ..\ordered
And voila, there was the list of files in the other folder, created in the sorted ...
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Linux Shell - Sort a text file by the length of each line, then print the shortest line
I have a file, file.txt, that contains the following:
This is many letters
This is few
Hi
This is a very long sentence.
(It actually is a few thousand lines long,
but I am new to Linux, and want to ...
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UNIX Command to sort file based on word delimited
I have a file that has lines file.txt like this:
www.site.com/230207|Sophie Rundle title: Episodes|5irko3ke
www.site.com/228264|Camilla Luddington title: Balifornication|5423234
www.site.com/...
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open files in sorted order (OSX)
I'm looking for a terminal command to open many files in preview in "sorted" order. I'd like to open the files in order: 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf, 4.pdf, etc. But without first sorting, they are opened ...
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