Command to sort directories after a recursive find

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

find -type d -name "TC_[0-9][0-9][0-9]*" | sort

That's what I have so far... it finds the appropriate directories and then sorts them. But, when it comes to nested subdirectories, it only sorts relative to the first subdirectory. I want it to sort based on the directory at the end of the path. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Thanks!

2

We don't know what Operating System of shell you have.
One idea is to extract the name of the low-level directory and use it as a temporary prefix while we sort.

Also, your "find" needs a start directory parameter. I have used "." in this example. Because I have used ":" as a delimiter this script will not work if a directory name contains a colon.

#!/bin/ksh
(
find . -type d -name "TC_[0-9][0-9][0-9]*" | while read DIR 
do
        DIRB=`basename "${DIR}"`
        echo "${DIRB}:${DIR}"
done
) | sort | cut -d: -f2-
3

I am using bash/sh. It works !! Thanks alot

4

Use a combination of basename and dirname to reverse the directories and sort on the new file.

Suppose

a=/a/b/c/d/e

do while $a >""
echo -e `basename $a \c"
a=`dirname $a`
done 
echo -e "\n"