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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting problem (SunOS 5.9 / KSH). Post 302222156 by radoulov on Wednesday 6th of August 2008 06:19:21 AM
Old 08-06-2008
You should force numeric comparison:

Code:
ls -g|sort -k4n

Some versions of ls (GNU coreutils) have the S switch (sort by file size).


Quote:
Can someone tell me why the "LargeFile" is coming first before the smaller file

Because 6117910528 sorts before 6136832 ASCIIbetically.
 

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suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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