Help needed in Listing Files

coolbhai · #1 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007

I need to list files in alphabetical-group and each such group listed in increasing order of timestamp.

Example : If I list files in a directory ( ls -lrt ) it shows like below.

c3
b4
b3
a4
a3
c2
b2
c1
b1
a2
a1

What I need is

c3
c2
c1
b4
b3
b2
b1
a4
a3
a2
a1

How can this be achieved using a command. ? Please help ?

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007

try this:

Code:

for prefix in c b a
do
     ls -lrt "$prefix"*
done

coolbhai · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007

Thank you ,That worked, Actually I was looking for a single line code.

rein · #4 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007

ls | sort -n ???

coolbhai · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by rein

ls | sort -n ???

It will sort in groups, not in timestamps..

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