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Old 08-06-2008
Sorting problem (SunOS 5.9 / KSH).
Hi,

Can someone tell me why the "LargeFile" is coming first before the smaller files. Is there any way to list the files based on size column.

ls -g| sort -k 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 6117910528 Apr 28 15:04 LargeFile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 6136832 May 30 07:23 my_20080530.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 6245376 May 1 13:57 my_20080501.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 6541824 Jul 30 12:55 my_20080730.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 6796288 Mar 13 08:55 my_20080313.tar

Thank you.
KS
# 2  
Old 08-06-2008
You should force numeric comparison:

Code:
ls -g|sort -k4n

Some versions of ls (GNU coreutils) have the S switch (sort by file size).


Quote:
Can someone tell me why the "LargeFile" is coming first before the smaller file

Because 6117910528 sorts before 6136832 ASCIIbetically.
# 3  
Old 08-06-2008
Thank you radoulov it is sorting correctly now.

And unfortunately we do not have -S option.
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