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Asked: 2020-10-23 00:26:49 +0800 CST

Sort files by extension in file explorer

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I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I want to sort files in a file explorer by their extension. I found the possibility of using nemo and sort the files by the Detailed Type but this doesn't really work satisfactorily. I have e.g. some files from MATLAB with the ending .m but some are marked correctly marked as MATLAB file but some are marked as Objective-C source code but they are also plain MATLAB code. Is there any way to sort the files (and folders) reliably by their extension? I'm not tied to any file explorer so any recommendation is very welcome. The two most important features which must be supported are

  1. Sorting the files by their extension (highest priority)
  2. Showing the whole address in the address line (rather than only those 'blocks' starting at the home directory)
filemanager file-sorting

4 Answers

  1. I'm happily using Krusader for some time now. It should be able to do what you want, certainly allows sorting by extension.

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  2. Best Answer

    It sounds like you need to meet to DoubleCommander

    It have:

    • Sorting the files by their extension (highest priority)
    • Showing the whole address in the address line (rather than only those 'blocks' starting at the home directory)

    Sorted by files and whole address in the bar

    Alternatively you can display the name with the extension and the extension column

    Name column options

    Also you can change the fonts in the config

    Font options

    You can add a hot key to edit the path or, from the first row, press F2.

    Path line options Pressing F2

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  3. You mean like this? The blocks you mentioned are called "breadcrumbs" (I don't know why) but you can get rid of it by clicking on the button I encircled in red in the picture below, to the left of the word "Location".

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  4. On the command line it could be done with

    ls --sort=extention

    or

    ls -1 --sort=extension
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