Re: Sort by File Size

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 05/28/03 

Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:51:13 GMT

In article <Sw8Ba.8679$6R.5020@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>,
John Sheakley <john_sheakley@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>I could not find an option in the manual for the ls command to sort by file
>size. How do you sort by file size?

Pipe the output through to the sort command. 

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