Sort is a command-line program that allows standard input or specified text files to be sorted in various ways such as numerically or alphabetically, and then the result can be displayed in the terminal or sent to file.
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Sort order in Nautilus: Phonebook-style
I want Nautilus to sort in a phonebookstyle, e.g. underscores should be first:
_Anton
_Bert
_Caesar
Anton
Bert
Caesar
How can I achieve this?
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Nautilus sort order with ls
I am creating image sprites and have neatly named around 100 files. I am using the following to generate an image sprite from individual images:
convert $(ls -w 1000) +append sprite.png
I have just ...
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How can I make Nautilus sorting ignore the word “The” or “A” at the beginning of file and folder names?
I have a rather large library of media and it gets annoying looking for something when I forget that the "official" name of the movie, artist, song, etc begins with the words "The" or "A". So, for ...
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How to take the first n files from a directory with a letter in alphabetical order to another directory
I need to take the first 3 files from a directory starting with letter b in alphabetical order to another directory. I've come up with this command:
find ...
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is there a file manager with which you can sort files manually as in Windows? or, Can I manually sort my files from the terminal?
In Nautilus you can sort files manually only in the icon view (and the arrangement is a mess). My question is: is there a file manager with which you can sort files manually as in Windows? i.e., ...
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How to make a new-defined alphabetic sort order in a locale work?
I'm working on a new Latin-based script for Persian. So I've used such lines in GB locale file, to modify the sort order:
First of all, I've introduced the new characters in such way:
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Order apps in the taskbar(windows list) +Lubuntu 11.04 [closed]
I recall that even in old MS windows 2000 there was a great free utility called Taskbar shuffle that can easily order apps on the taskbar, say coding apps and testig on left part of the taskbar , ...
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How to automatically sort files out?
I have many files in my external harddrive, so I want to automatically tell the computer to sort all my files into folders, by their size, extension, name and other variables. Is there any program ...
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Can I sort files in Dolphin into date order on Kubuntu 12.04.01?
Can I sort files in Dolphin into date order on Kubuntu 12.04.01?
It was suggested (can't remember where) that Nepomuk would do this. If this is so, how do I enable Nepomuk. The application appears to ...
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LibreOffice latest version color sort
I would like to arrange my cells according to color. I have a mix data cell with different colors in between, and would like to arrange them so all the same colors are with each other...
Is it ...
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Searching through ODT documents without opening them?
Let's say I have 2000 .ODT files. Their names are random numbers. How do I go about searching for, let's say, "pricing list"? How do I find the document I need without opening all of them one by one ...
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How to put Banshee in manual sort mode
i'm making a playlist for my friend's birthday.I need to sort the songs.
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How do I sort a wordlist by string length?
There is a wordlist look like this;
123
b
1
4rr
f
k3j3
gg
Then I needed to sort these words by string length (doesn't matter which start with numeric or string both are okay)
The output should be ...
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How do I sort account names alphabetically in Thunderbird?
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and Thunderbird 13.0.1.
I had 2 accounts earlier in Thunderbird:
a..@i..net
s..@c..com
I also had another account on SeaMonkey:
a..@i..com
which I imported into ...
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How to sort lines in a text file from the terminal?
I have to sort the GPA in a file for my class lab. The teacher uses putty, for those of us that chose to use Ubuntu in the class, we have no idea how to do the command for ascending sort and ...
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Why does sort perform much faster on my Slackware server? [closed]
I have a powerful machine with 32GB RAM, 10TB hard disk storage, and an Intel Core i7 3.3Ghz processor. We installed Ubuntu Server 11.10 and tried some scripts: the most impressive was a sort file.txt ...
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How do I force folder view sort order to not ignore special characters?
I have many folders in my home directory that have names that begin with special characters such as _OLD_500GB_HD or !FolderIWantToSeeAtTheTop, but for some reason these folders are sorted according ...
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Wiping my hard disks, how do I pull out and sort all the music/videos/pictures?
Looking to raid my hard disks but need all the important stuff out first, have not been very tidy with my file management, is there a program that will scan my computer and pull out all the video, ...
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Move downloaded files based on criteria
After downloading tv shows and movies I would like them to be automatically moved to two separate folders (named "tv shows" and "Movies").
I know there are a lot of programs that you can do this with ...
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How can I fix my files' “modified dates”?
I just discovered that some of my files have traveled back in time! I like to keep my files arranged by modification date and was surprised to find that some (but not all) of my files are now showing ...
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How to make some folders appear on the top in Nautilus?
I'd like to have some folders on top e.g. on Windows I had _videos folder which would always appear on top. How do I achieve the same effect in case of Nautilus? It's rarely the case I'd need similar ...
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Music player that can sort or filter by number of tracks (per artist)
I'm looking for a music player/music library manager that allows me to see a list of artists sorted by the number of tracks I have for that artist. Winamp does this, but I haven't found any ...
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How do I disable file sorting on usb drives? [closed]
Are there any file managers that allow unsorted folders on usb drives? I can select manual sort on my hard drives fine, but when I connect a usb mass storage device the option for manual sort is gone ...
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How can I make a script to place files older than each day before into their own folder?
I'm running an unnecessarily complex script which looks similar to this command:
find /home/user/videos/*.avi -mtime +0 -exec mv -f {} "/home/nb/videos/1 day old" \;
And then I run the same ...
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How to sort files by file extensions through the command line?
This is my question: How to sort files by file extensions through the command line?
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How do I sort by human readable sizes numerically?
for example I have command that shows how much space folder takes
du folder | sort -n
it works great, however I would like to have human readable form
du -h folder
however if I do that than I ...
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Change the Sort order of Devices in Nautilus
I have Three Windows drive,
my nautilus shows devices in following order
I want it to be sorted like windows 7 does
C drive
D drive
E Drive
My Massport
13 GB FS
Future attached removable ...
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Can I/How do I sort titles by resolution in VLC, mplayer, or similar app? [closed]
Can I/How do I sort titles by resolution in VLC, mplayer, or similar app, i.e., sort videos by their pixel count?, e.g., a 1920x1080 vid followed by a 1280x720 vid, etc, ascending or descending.
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Sort albums by date in Banshee
Banshee has an option - sort albums by release date, not by name, but turning it on do nothing. All tags are filled correctly. Is at a bug or I miss something?
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Can I view my files sorted by date?
Can I view my files sorted by date?
I want to see my files sorted by date, I mean the first one the newest. I didn't find this option.
Thanks in advance.
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How do I force a folder sort for my downloaded music on Rhythmbox
When I import music from an external source, it sorts it into the nice and organized folders by artist - album, but when I import music from Downloads, it just references the file in Downloads and ...
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Good tutorial on grep, sort, unique and tools like that
I don't even know how those tools are called together, but i think they make linux a very powerful OS. Do you know any good tutorials to learn those?
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How to sort or manually arrange Evolution Mail Account Names in Preferences?
Is there some way I can re-arrange the order of Mail Account Names in Evolution's Properties dialog?
I find it strange that this list shows entries in the order in which I add them, and there is no ...
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Nautilus sorts the Name-column “mysteriously”. How can I change the collating sequence?
What I describe here is not about a problem with my Nautilus. (it is the default behavour)
I understand why Nautilus sorts the Name-column (ascending) so that "6 cats" occuring before "10 dogs"... ...
