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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort by name, time, and size Post 302635181 by Daniel Gate on Friday 4th of May 2012 10:58:30 AM
Old 05-04-2012
This becomes a bit tricky. many files i.e. have different suffixes, which makes the sorting a bit difficult to read..
Is there any way to ignore the suffix and sort them?

PHP Code:
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 May 14 2011  vte_med_hx_15057889.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 May 10 2011  vte_med_hx_15058605.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 May 12 2011  vte_med_hx_15058885.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          365 May 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15059132.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 May 10 2011  vte_med_hx_15059305.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 May 25 2011  vte_med_hx_15059371.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15059865.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15059901.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15059938.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15059987.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 11 2011  vte_med_hx_15060069.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          365 Jun 13 2011  vte_med_hx_15060094.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 d_gold   d_gold          308 Jun 12 2011  vte_med_hx_15060167.rtf 
Please advise.
 

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