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# 15  
Old 04-02-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve
I would like to make the question simpler - how to simply sort all of the files in one folder. Just like
Code:
sort  >

I have 6000 files in that folder and I would like to know if it is possible to sort all of them with one command.
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This simpler question of yours has been answered in post#9, albeit in bourne shell "language". You even had an attempt of a solution to a similar problem in csh "speak" in post#4.
You insist on a full blown csh solution (for not being able to use that bourne one) for two weeks now - chances are dwindling you'll get one unless you translate / create it yourself.
# 16  
Old 04-03-2018
A reply to Don Cragun

Code:
echo "PATH=$PATH"   gives

PATH=/bin:/opt/gcc.3.3/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/c
ontrib/win32/bin

ls /bin/*sh /usr/bin/*sh  gives

/bin/chsh       /bin/rsh        /usr/bin/chsh   /usr/bin/rsh
/bin/csh        /bin/sh         /usr/bin/csh    /usr/bin/sh
/bin/ksh        /bin/tcsh       /usr/bin/ksh    /usr/bin/tcsh

# 17  
Old 04-03-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve
Code:
ls /bin/*sh /usr/bin/*sh  gives

/bin/chsh       /bin/rsh        /usr/bin/chsh   /usr/bin/rsh
/bin/csh        /bin/sh         /usr/bin/csh    /usr/bin/sh
/bin/ksh        /bin/tcsh       /usr/bin/ksh    /usr/bin/tcsh

I can't understand why you steadfastly insist on using the C-shell. From your output:

Code:
/bin/csh
/usr/bin/csh      # these two are C-shells

/bin/sh
/usr/bin/sh       # these two are Bourne-shells, the ancestor of both bash and ksh

/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/ksh      # these are Korn-shells, the preferable tool

/bin/tcsh         # these are Tenex-C-shells, a more modern and matured
/usr/bin/tcsh     # (but unfortunately non-standard) version of the C-shell

You could run most of the scripts suggested to you in ksh as well as in bash and even if you would insist on C-shell you should use tcsh instead of the original csh.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 18  
Old 04-03-2018
As bakunin has already implied, if you run the code I suggested in post #9 in this thread with ksh it should do exactly what you said you want to do. (You might note that in that post I said it would work with either bash or ksh.)

Depending on the vintage of sh on your system, that code might also work if you run it with sh or even rsh.
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# 19  
Old 04-04-2018
Hi! Thank you for your help! I really didn't know that I have the necessary shells in my pc since I'm relatively unexperienced. Now that I've found them evetything works great! Solution offered in post #9 works great in ksh! Thank you Don Cragun! This thread can be marked solved!
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