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Hi Guys ,

Please help me I am having a requirement as below:

$ ls -i log* | head
66486532 log1
66486662 log10
66486663 log11
66486664 log12
66486665 log13
66486533 log2
66486534 log3
66486535 log4
66486584 log5
66486590 log6

This id listing the first 10 files starting with log.

$ ls -i log* | sort -t' ' -k1 -n |head
66486532 log1
66486533 log2
66486534 log3
66486535 log4
66486584 log5
66486590 log6
66486655 log7
66486656 log8
66486661 log9
66486662 log10

I sorted on inode numbers and got the listing.

My doubt is whether can I sort on the number after log? I am unable to find a command for it.

Please help me guys.

Regards,

Mahesh..

Code:

nawk '{match($2, "[0-9]+$"); print substr($2, RSTART), $0}' myFile.txt | sort -n -k1,1 | cut -d' ' -f2-

Hi..

Actually the thing is like, I want the output in such a way that the second field that contains all logfiles should be sorted and it should be printed along with the inode numbers instead of sorting first field that is inode numbers.
like

log1
log2
log3
log4
log5
log6
log7
log8
log9
log10

Have you tried the X option for the ls?

Actually.... have you tried what'd been posted?