Sorting ls output where files end in numbers

Question

Here is the output of my normal ls command:

f1  f10  f11  f12  f13  f14  f15  f16  f17  f18  f19  f2  f20  f3  f4  f5  f6  f7  f8  f9

So I have 20 files. I need them displayed as :

f1  f2 f3  f4  f5  f6  f7  f8  f9 f10  f11  f12  f13  f14  f15  f16  f17  f18  f19  f20

Is there any single-line command to this other than writing a script? I am sure some of you must have faced this weird situation. Note: the above is just a sample. In the actual scenario I need a list of all the file names in proper sorted order. (ranging from f{0..10000})

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '16 at 14:20

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fortunately! there is a single-line command

ls -lav

should do what you are looking for

answered Mar 09 '16 at 14:20

lese

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Oh Natural sort! cool. – 0aslam0 Mar 09 '16 at 14:21
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Good answer. To be clear, it's the -v option that answers the question: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls.1.html – gth Dec 11 '22 at 23:20
thanks for the clarification : ) – lese Jan 03 '23 at 11:25

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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With GNU ls, you can use:

ls -v

With POSIX tools chest:

ls | sort -nk1.2 | paste -sd ' ' -

If you are sure that all files in range existed, with shells have brace expansion:

echo f{1..20}

With zsh:

print -r -- f*(n)

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community

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answered Mar 09 '16 at 14:32

cuonglm

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Sorting ls output where files end in numbers

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