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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk: sort lines by count of a character or string in a line Post 302450571 by Scrutinizer on Friday 3rd of September 2010 05:34:58 AM
Old 09-03-2010
I believe a simple reverse sort will suffice for your purpose, no?

sort -r will produce:

Code:
./dir/dirc
./dir/dirb
./dir/dira
./dir/dir2
./dir3/dirc
./dir3/dirb/dirVI
./dir3/dirb/dirV
./dir3/dirb/dirIV
./dir3/dirb/dirIII
./dir3/dirb/dirII
./dir3/dirb/dirI
./dir3/dirb
./dir3/dira
./dir3
./dir2/dirc
./dir2/dirb
./dir2/dira
./dir2
./dir

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