hello,

i have a question and i'll be appreciated if you can help me with this.

i have i folder let's say "users"
in this folder there are files (file1, file2, file2, etc) and in each file there is a number (lets say 4 in file1)

i want to display some thing like bellow

file1 4
file2 3
file3 2
file4 1

i want also the files names to be sorted alphapitical order..

Is this possible ! (using shell script)
Thanks a lot.

Assuming files in current directory and each file consists of the number as in question:

nawk ' { print FILENAME " " $1 } ' `ls` | sort

gives:

file1 4
file2 3
file3 2
file4 1

thanks for your replay pmm but what if i want to specify the directory path !

regards

The ls command can be used to retrieve any files required from any directory:

nawk ' { print FILENAME " " $1 } ' `ls files/file*` | sort

wow
Thanks a lot pmm, this was very helpfull... i got the bellow

myfiles/file1 4
myfiles/file2 3
myfiles/file3 2
...

can i display this result with any kind of format! like

file name value
file1 4
file2 3
file3 2

and so on

Regards

Ok - try this

nawk ' { print FILENAME "/" $1 }' `ls files/file*` | sort | nawk -F/ '
BEGIN { printf "%10s\t%10s\n","Filename","Value" }
{ printf "%10s\t%10s\n",$(NF-1),$NF } '

First nawk does as previous but makes output:
myfiles/file1/1
etc.
Second nawk does formatting with prints, printing header in BEGIN section, then format printing second last and last fields.

thanks a lot pmm

this realy helpfull... i spent hours to find a way to do that.... i really appreciate your help

Regards