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blueFast
blueFast

Reputation: 44381

Order list of files by filename, but keeping path

I need to order a list of files by file name. Currently I do the ordering like this:

» find . -name "*.fixtures.json" | sort
./my_registration/fixtures/0600-my_registration.fixtures.json
./soamgr/fixtures/0200-soamgr.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0100-users.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0110-permissions.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0120-groups.fixtures.json

Which is ordering by full path (as expected).

In this case I would like to order just by file name (so that my number prefixes are the ones defining the ordering), but keeping the path information. This is the output I would need:

./soaprj/fixtures/0100-users.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0110-permissions.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0120-groups.fixtures.json
./soamgr/fixtures/0200-soamgr.fixtures.json
./my_registration/fixtures/0600-my_registration.fixtures.json

Is there an easy way to do this in bash, with standard unix tools?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 38

Answers (3)

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88644

Append this to your find to use a Schwartzian transform:

| awk -F/  '{print $NF "/" $0}' | sort -n | cut -d / -f 2-

Output:

./soaprj/fixtures/0100-users.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0110-permissions.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0120-groups.fixtures.json
./soamgr/fixtures/0200-soamgr.fixtures.json
./my_registration/fixtures/0600-my_registration.fixtures.json

awk:

-F: sets the field separator

$NF: number of fields in the current record / last column

$0: whole line of arguments

Upvotes: 3

karakfa
karakfa

Reputation: 67507

If the depth is not fixed you use something like this

$ sed 's_.*/_& _' files | sort -k2n | sed 's_/ _/_'

./soaprj/fixtures/0100-users.fixtures.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0110-permissions.fixtures.json
./a/b/c/d/0115-dummy.json
./soaprj/fixtures/0120-groups.fixtures.json
./soamgr/fixtures/0200-soamgr.fixtures.json
./my_registration/fixtures/0600-my_registration.fixtures.json

I added a dummy record to verify sorting. Assumes no spaces in file names or paths.

Upvotes: 1

Stanislav Shabalin
Stanislav Shabalin

Reputation: 19278

If directory depth is the same for all the files (3 in your example) the following will work:

find . -name "*.fixtures.json" | sort -t/ -k 4n

Upvotes: 1

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