Sorting files according to the length of filename

Question

Can I sort files according to the length of filename?

Answer 1

Since you haven't specified a preferred method, here is a solution in Perl:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
use strict;
use warnings;

my @a;

opendir(my $dir, ".") or die $!;
while(readdir $dir) {
    push @a, $_;
}
closedir $dir;

@a = sort { length($a) <=> length($b) } @a;

foreach(@a)
{
    print "$_\n" if -f;
}

output:

p.pl
p.php
lwp.pl
test.bat
index.htm
index.php
readnsort.pl
scrape_parse.txt

Answer 2

Output the contents of a folder, sorted by file name length using PowerShell:

 gci c:\anyfolder | select-object name, @{Name="Nlength";Expression={$_.Name.Length}} | sort-object Nlength

It'll output something like this:

Name                     Nlength
----                     -------
DL.mdb                         6
trolol.txt                    10
AAAAA-2011-03-23-111.xls      24

Answer 3

If you just want the list of filenames, you can do it easily with excel. Or you can do it with FileBoss . Windows-explorer can't do this :)