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Old 05-25-2006
List Files by Extensions
I have a unix directory with 500 plus files . When I do a ls -lR I can see ALL the files here . How can I sort this by the files extensions ?

I can't enter ls -lR *.ext1 *.ext2 *.ext3 etc in case I miss out some files .
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Old 05-25-2006
use sort
Specify delimiter for sort as period(.) and sort based on the second key.
Code:
ls -lR | sort -t. -k 2


This assumes your filenames donot have any period(.) inbetween their names.
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Old 05-25-2006
Yes ! It works now . Have sorted those 500+ files by extensions

Thanks
 
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