[Gllug] Shell script to sort filenames

[Manjush G. Menon]

hi tim
though i didnt test it out, 
thanks a lot for your help
Have a great day

~~ Manjush

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: [Gllug] Shell script to sort filenames


> MANJUSH  wrote concerning a shell script to sort file-names within several
> directories into alphabetical order 
> 
> I am not totally sure if the following does what is required, but you can
> try it.   The script is crude, but it appears to work
> Invocation is simply:
> script-name   -f  directory1 directory2 ...... 
> or
> script-name   -r  directory1 directory2 ...... 
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> if [ $# -lt 2 ]
> then
> echo "insufficient parameters; must be -f[r] and at least one directory"
> exit
> fi
> A=$#
> ORDER=$1
> if [ $ORDER != "-r" -a $ORDER != "-f" ]
> then
> echo "sort order not specified (-f or -r)"
> exit
> fi
> cat /dev/null > /tmp/sort
> A=`expr $A - 1`
> while [ $A -gt 0 ]
> do
> A=`expr $A - 1`
> shift 1
> echo "$1"
> ls "$1" >> /tmp/tosort
> done
> sort $ORDER /tmp/tosort > /tmp/sorted
> rm /tmp/tosort
> 
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