On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:51:48PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > > I didn't manage with `find'. > > Thanks for any suggestion > Rodolfo > > e.g.: suppose that in my home directory there are dir1 and dir2 and the > following files: > ~/file ~/dir1/file1 ~/dir/file2 > I want the result of my search to be: > file > file1 > file2
Find indeed needs some help. It can only produce a list, and not very good at sorting it out-of-order. find . -name \*.txt -printf '%f\n' | sort -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]