How to sort files by file extensions through the command line?

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This is my question: How to sort files by file extensions through the command line?

bioShark · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-19T19:18:11.487

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This is what you are looking for:

ls -Xl

From the man file:

 -X                         sort alphabetically by entry extension

This is an example of how you could move .txt files into a test forlder:

mv *.txt test/

edited Nov 19 '11 at 19:18

answered Nov 19 '11 at 12:52

bioShark

Thanks, that is useful. Yet, it is not exactly what I wanted. I guess my question isn't that clear now that I read it again. What I would want is to move files from one folder into a specific folder by using the file extension. Turns out I managed by using the mv command. – Ederico Nov 19 '11 at 15:26
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I've added a mv command to move files based on extension. Cheers – bioShark Nov 19 '11 at 19:18

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