Place the selected 5th coloumn in the file file1 and sort the file1.

How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex.
i want to sort 5th column from output of ls -l command.

Question Posted / karunaprakash

Answer Posted / karunaprakash

Place the selected 5th coloumn in the file file1 and sort
the file1.

$ ls -l | cut -f 5 > file1
$sort file1

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