Sorting on the last field of a line

by 
awk '{print $NF,$0}' file | sort | cut -f2- -d' '

Basically, this command does:

  1. Repeat the last field at the beginning, separated with a whitespace (default OFS)
  2. Sort, resolve the duplicated filenames using the full path ($0) for sorting
  3. Cut the repeated first field, f2- means from the second field to the last

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