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Old 01-04-2018
Sort the filenames

Hello Unix experts:
I have dir where few files are there, i want to sort these files and write the output to some other file but i need filenames with filepath too
eg:

i have filenames like

Code:
010020001_S-FOR-Sort-SYEXC_20171218_094256_0004.txt

so i want to sort my files on first 5 fields of filenames, i tried this command

Code:
ls -1| sort > sort.txt

i got the sorted output in sort.txt but its just filename..how can i append filepath to each filename and if possible provide me better solution for sort.

TIA
# 2  
Old 01-04-2018
Would
Code:
ls -1d $(pwd)/*

workl?
# 3  
Old 01-05-2018
There isn't any real need to invoke an external utility for this. One could also try:
Code:
printf "$PWD/%s\n" * > sort.txt

as long as the pathname of your current working directory doesn't contain contain any <percent-sign> or <backslash> characters, or if the pathname could contain some of those characters:
Code:
for fn in *
do	printf '%s/%s\n' "$PWD" "$fn"
done > sort.txt

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