Shell Programming and Scripting

Both of those are working fine; I am guessing that it might be more efficient than using the while loop ???? not really sure I will have to experiment.

Thanks again I have many ways to choose to do this now.

@snapppy46 Thank you for your kind acknowledgement. I have come unstuck with Busybox before and I can't test solutions in any of my environments. There are experts around who react to "Busybox" in the title of the post. It is a very common Operating System in embedded systems.
(Quietly Flips channel with remote control blissfully unaware of what makes it work).

you can also try

Code:

awk -F/ '{print $NF":"$0}' mylist.txt | sort | cut -d: -f2

and ... by the way ,
If you stick with the while loop, you may want to use

Code:

filename2=${filename##*/}

rather than

Code:

filename2=`basename "${filename}"`

You guy's are the best this work very good and is very fast: sed 's:\(.*/\)\(.*\):\2 \1\2:' mylist.txt | sort | sed 's:.* ::'Unfortunately I forgot one detail; I would like the sort to be case insensitive and -f does not exist in this version of sort. I really hate to be a pain about this but anything I could do to make this happen.

Sorry for not thinking about that earlier but I only notice it when I looked at the output created by my script.

Thanks

@methyl; thanks for the advice next time I will make sure that busybox is included in the thread title.

Code:

awk -F/ '{print tolower($NF)":"$0}' mylist.txt | sort | cut -d: -f2

Thank you for all your replies. Things are working just the way I want due to your contributions.