[X-Unix] Looking for lc(1) source code

Scott Forbes sforbes42 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 20 23:31:07 PST 2008


On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Brian Medley wrote:

> 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 " " -

Or in a pinch, this:

	function lc () { file * | sort -t: -k2 -b -f ;}



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