http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:17:23 GMT DZone Snippets: shell code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3280 Sort file by length of lines <br /> <br /><code> <br />cat $@ | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' <br /></code> Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:41:12 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3280 AlpT (AlpT)