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Old 09-02-2006
Sorting files in a directory
Hi guys,

Probably an easy one, but how do you sort a directory so that the files come first, then subdirectories?

ie ./dir1 has

file 1
subdir 1
file 2

i need it to become

file 1
file 2
subdir 1

as i'm using it in a script to pass each one through a for loop, and would like all the files done before going into the subdir.

Many thanks in advance

Oliver
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Old 09-02-2006
Please don't bump up your questions, you have posted same question in other forum also, wait until someone answers your query.
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Old 09-02-2006
Apologies, just wasen't sure which forum was appropriate, and also which one receives more attention.

Again, apologies

Oliver
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Old 09-06-2006
MySQL
May be there could be some more simpler way to get it done, but as of now all i could think of is something like

Code:
ls -l | sort -rd | awk '{ print $9 }'

Rishi
 
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