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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex.
i want to sort 5th column from output of ls -l command.

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / xxx

ls -l|sort -nk5

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / kiran

$ ls -al | sort -n -k5

The -n in my example means "sort numerically", and the -k5
option means to key off of column five. Like other Unix
commands, these options can be combined and shortened, like
this:

$ ls -al | sort -nk5

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / amrapalee jawalikar

ls -l | sort +4 -5

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / karunaprakash

Place the selected 5th coloumn in the file file1 and sort
the file1.


$ ls -l | cut -f 5 > file1
$sort file1

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / vikas

ls -al | sort | cut -d ' ' -f 5

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How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output ..

Answer / rajesh

ls -l | awk '{print $5}'

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