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Old 09-10-2011
Displaying File Information with du and sort
Hi all,

I have a network drive that has a directory named "music". In music I have a ton of folders of artists then albums then songs. I wanted to print out all of the songs ordered by artists then albums.

I was trying:

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Code:
du -ka | sort

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with results like this:

********************************************************************************************
Code:
99711	./Rage Against the Machine/Rage Against the Machine - Discography/Rage Against the Machine
9979	        ./Queen/Queen Discography/-- Compilations --/(1997) Queen Rocks/18 Queen - No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young).mp3
9981	        ./Queen/Queen Discography/-- Live Albums --/(2007) Queen Rock Montreal/CD 1/09 Queen - Save Me.mp3
9984	        ./ACDC/AC-DC - Black Ice [2008]/12. AC-DC - Money Made.mp3
9990	        ./Kiss/Destroyer/01 Detroit Rock City.mp3
99920	./The Beatles/The Beatles Complete Discography @ 320 kbps/The Beatles - 1988 - Past Masters, Volume One

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This is not exactly what I want. Does anyone have any ideas of a better way?

I'd like them alphabetical by artist, then album, then song. Not sure if it can be done. At least alphabetical artist.

Thanks ahead of time!

Smilie
Last edited by pludi; 09-10-2011 at 05:35 PM..
# 2  
Old 09-10-2011
Does the following work?
Code:
du -ka | sort -t/ -f -k2,4

# 3  
Old 09-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by xbin
Does the following work?
Code:
du -ka | sort -t/ -f -k2,4

Thanks xbin! I get this error:

sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
sort: The strings compared were `JANIS JOPLIN - GREATEST HITS - FOLK ROCK 320KBPS/JANIS JOPLIN - GREATEST HITS F.JPG' and `JANIS JOPLIN - GREATEST HITS - FOLK ROCK 320KBPS/THE DEMON\302\200\231S EYE MUSIC FORUM NEWSLETTER! ISSUE ONE.RAR'.
# 4  
Old 09-11-2011
OK, Let's try another approach. What if you use find?
Code:
#simple find example
find . -type f
#find with searching for specific file extensions- mp3 and RAR (you may need to add more)
find . -type f -name \*.[mR][Ap][3R]

Last edited by xbin; 09-11-2011 at 06:32 PM.. Reason: again: I should test before I post!
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# 5  
Old 09-12-2011
Well that's more like it!! Smilie

Perfect. Thanks for the help!!
 
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