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Sorting file names by length of the file name

ls displays the files available in a directory. I want the file names to be displayed based on the length of the file name.

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in Advance

Solution

  • You can do like this 

    for i in `ls`; do LEN=`expr length $i`; echo $LEN $i; done | sort -n