---
title: sort a file by line length
---

```
this
is
a
test
```

`cat test | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | cut -d" " -f2-`

```
a
is
test
this
```

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917576/sort-a-text-file-by-line-length-including-spaces