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bioShark
Asked: 2014-07-15 15:49:08 +0800 CST

List files appended with an order number

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Is there a quick way to list all the files from a location having an appended order number?

something like: 

ls -a

generates the result:

1 file a

2 file b

...

100 file whatever

Thanks.

P.S. I need this because I am exporting a list to a file, and I have to analyse those files, and it would help me to be able to identify the files.

bash

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From the terminal use the following command: 

    ls -a | cat -b
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  2. yes there is. just pipe nl to the end of the your command:

    In this case you should write in this way:

    ls -a | nl

    and the result is :

    1. foo
    2. bar
    3. baz

    nl refers to number line of files.

    also look at here :) http://www.sitepoint.com/15-little-known-unix-commands/?

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  3. Karel's answer is fine for most cases but it will break in the unlikely case where your file names contain newlines. For a more robust approach use stat instead:

    stat --printf "%N\n" * | cat -n

    or findand awhile` loop:

    find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '"%f"\0' | 
while IFS=$'\0' read -r -d $'\0' file; do 
  let c++; printf "%d\t%s\n" $c "$file"; 
done
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