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Old 09-26-2011
List files according to the numerical value
Hi,

I have a large number of files which are named as follows.

VF_50, VF_100, VF_150, VF_250, VF_300, VF_350, VF_400, VF_450, VF_500.

When I do an 'ls' it arranges the files in the following way

VF_100, VF_150, VF_250, VF_300, VF_350, VF_400, VF_450, VF_50, VF_500.

Is there a way to arrange the files according to its numerical value, i.e. VF_50 has a lower numerical value than VF_100.

Thanks.
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Old 09-26-2011
Code:
 
ls | sort -t_ -n -k2

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Code:
$ ls VF* | sort -t_ +1n

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