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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting by Full directory path Post 302401266 by javidraaj on Friday 5th of March 2010 10:20:03 AM
Old 03-05-2010
Sorting by Full directory path
I have a text file with full list of files with their full path. I wanted to sort it by directory then files then subdirectory by alphabetically. When I used the sort command it doesn't give like what I want. Could somebody help me on this.
Here is the ex:
This is what I'm getting
Code:
parent/childDir
parent/childDir/A_subdir
parent/childDir/A_subdir/A_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/AF_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/AF2_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/E_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/L_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/P_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/T_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/a_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/a_v_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/al_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/au_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/M_File
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/a_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/c_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/v_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/c_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/d_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/f_File.txt

but I wanted like this

Code:
parent/childDir
parent/childDir/A_subdir
parent/childDir/A_subdir/A_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/ab_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/AF_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/AF2_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/al_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/au_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/a_v_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/c_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/d_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/E_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/f_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/L_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/P_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/T_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/a_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/c_File.txt
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/M_File
parent/childDir/A_subdir/B_subdir/v_File.txt

Thanks
Last edited by radoulov; 03-05-2010 at 11:43 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
 

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