bashsortingsize

Bash - List and Sort Files and Their Sizes and by Name and Size



I am trying to figure out how to sort a list of files by name and size.
How do I sort by file name and size using "du -a" and not show directories?

Using "du -a"

1   ./locatedFiles
0   ./testDir/j.smith.c
0   ./testDir/j.smith
1   ./testDir/sampleFunc/arrays
2   ./testDir/sampleFunc
0   ./testDir/j.smith.txt
0   ./testDir/testing
0   ./testDir/test2
0   ./testDir/test3
0   ./testDir/test1
0   ./testDir/first/j.smith
0   ./testDir/first/test
1   ./testDir/first
1   ./testDir/second
1   ./testDir/third
6   ./testDir

How can I list all files without directories, add files sizes, and sort by files name first, then by size?

Thanks for your help


Solution

  • You can use this:

    find -type f -printf "%f  %s %p\n"|sort
    

    Explanation:

    Then run through sort which sorts in the order given above (i.e. file name, then file size, then file path). The output would be something like this (part of the output shown):

    ...
    XKBstr.h 18278 ./extensions/XKBstr.h
    XlibConf.h 1567 ./XlibConf.h
    Xlib.h 99600 ./Xlib.h
    Xlibint.h 38897 ./Xlibint.h
    Xlocale.h 1643 ./Xlocale.h
    xlogo11 219 ./bitmaps/xlogo11
    ....
    

    Hope this helps