On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:14:07AM -0800, Robar Philip wrote: > lc(1) is an ls(1) like command which sorts by file type. (MKS Software > ships a version with their UNIX toolkit.) I used to have the source for a > free version can't find it now and I was unable to find it via Google. Does > anyone out there have a pointer? Something like this might be helpful. The character in " " is a tab. $ find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 file -F " " -N | sort -k 2,2 -t " " - -- Brian Medley