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Sunday, November 22, 2009
AWK - Sort lines from shortest to longest
Display filenames in a directory with the shortest filenames first and longest length last:
ls -1 | awk '{printf "%d\t%s\n", length($0), $0}' | sort +0n -1 | sed 's/^[0-9][0-9]* //'
