Bash: Sort files from 'find' by contents

For completeness sake here are a few more ways of doing that:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*key*' -not -name '*~' -exec cat {} \; | sort
find -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*key*' -not -name '*~' | xargs cat | sort
cat $(find -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*key*' -not -name '*~') | sort

If you would like to save the sorted output into a file, try:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*key*'  -not -name '*~' | cat | sort > sorted.txt

otherwise just get rid of > sorted.txt and the sorted output will be printed to the terminal window.

CodeHunter