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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting files by size. No ls. Post 302457598 by BobbyTee on Tuesday 28th of September 2010 10:55:30 AM
Old 09-28-2010
Sorting files by size. No ls.
I've got an assignment where I've made a script that searched and found files that meet certain requirement. (Files that are a size that is from "x" to "y" in size and has a certain name).

The script sends the output to a file that gathers the info.

The problem is I'd like to sort what's displayed in that file by size (and I need info on how large the files are, filename and directory).

I've read on the forums and found cases that are ALMOST right on, 'cept I can't use any "ls" commands because that would list and sort all the files in a directory, not the results that I get from my script.

This is the script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
find . -name 'test*' -size +32c | sort > findtest_info.txt

It returns:

./test2.sh
./test53.sh
./test.sh
./test.txt

Is there any way to sort it via filesize and display the size of the files. In ascending order?

Complete noob here, just started with bash - Cheers, BobbyTee.
Last edited by BobbyTee; 09-28-2010 at 12:02 PM.. Reason: [Edit: Spelling errors, LOTS of them...]
 

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SYNOPSIS

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