How to sort ls by column in Ubuntu via piping to sort?
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I'm a Linux newbie trying to learn how piping works in the Ubuntu terminal. I tried to sort by file size: The files were listed in this order: This is obviously a fail in terms of sorting by file size. I tried with a bunch of other columns in addition to , and repeatedly get muddled, out of order, …
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ls -al | sort -k5
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The output you show is sorted alphabetically instead of numerically. Try adding: , compare according to string numerical value Edit: I just noticed that in your output the file size column appears to be the 6th one! have you tried ? Tested on my Har…
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