Sort alphabeticaly using ls command

[rkam]

how to list a files in a directory alphabetically using ls command

Thx
rk

 

[motoslide]

Listing files alphabetically is the default. Maybe you could elaborate on your needs?

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[rkam]

I have attached an image for the ls command.
When I execute this command there are couple of files not listed alphabetically at the beginning of the list.
My question:
1. How to sort them alphabetically?
2. How to list only directories alphabetically?
3. How to list only files alphabetically?

 

[rkam]

There is some error in the attachment in the previous thread. The correct attachment is here...

 

[feherke]

Hi

1. How to sort them alphabetically?

You can not. ( Supposing by "alphabetically" you mean "like the market leader OS does". Otherwise, that list is already sorted alphabetically. )

2. How to list only directories alphabetically?

You can not.

3. How to list only files alphabetically?

You can not. ( Supposing by "only files" you mean "like the market leader OS does". Otherwise, that list already contains only files. )

See [tt]find[/tt], [tt]sort[/tt], [tt]grep[/tt], ( maybe [tt]stat[/tt] on Linux ) and write a script/function/alias for your needs.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

Ok, let me try it abit more creatively. Some examples of combining the mentioned commands :

[gray]# sort by name alphabetically, case insensitive[/gray]
ls | sort -f
ls -l | sort -k 8

[gray]# display only files of type directory[/gray]
ls -l | grep ^d
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

[gray]# display files of other type than directory[/gray]
ls -l | grep -v ^d

[gray]# list only regular files[/gray]
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

One possible way to put them together in a function :

function myls()
{
  local path="${1:-.}" type="$2"
  find "$path" -maxdepth 1 ${type:+-type $type} | sort -f
}

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

One thing I found out recently. The GNU version of [tt]ls[/tt] sorts depending on the [tt]LC_ALL[/tt] setting. Actually this is not intended to change the case sensitivity, it is part of internationalization.

[blue]master #[/blue] LC_ALL=POSIX ls -1
TWO
one
three

[blue]master #[/blue] LC_ALL=en_US ls -1
one
three
TWO

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/