On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
Well, at least I know it can do it now. The problem -- as usual for a newbie
-- is that I haven't got the vaguest understanding of what I just read. The
field part I think I get, but how would I use the first character? I guess
I'm basically too stupid to get these kind of instructions -- maybe just one
example for the use of each option included in man pages would help?
Here's a completely different approach. I ran into this exact problem
often enough that I wrote a small Perl script to handle it:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use File::Find ();
# for the convenience of &wanted calls, including -eval statements:
use vars qw/*name/;
*name = *File::Find::name;
(@ARGV) or usage();
my (%files, $tString, $reverse);
$reverse = 1 if ($ARGV[1] =~ /r.*/);
# Traverse desired filesystems
File::Find::find(\&wanted, $ARGV[0]);
# sort %files by mod. time, print.
if ($ARGV[1] =~ /r.*/) {
foreach my $f (sort { $files{$b} <=> $files{$a} } keys %files) {
# chop off day of week
($tString = scalar localtime($files{$f})) =~ s/\w* //;
print $tString, "\t",$f,"\n";
}
} else {
foreach my $f (sort { $files{$a} <=> $files{$b} } keys %files) {
# chop off day of week
($tString = scalar localtime($files{$f})) =~ s/\w* //;
print $tString, "\t",$f,"\n";
}
}
exit;
sub wanted {
my (@fstat);
# put the filename and mod. time into %files
((@fstat) = lstat($_)) && -f _ && ($files{$name} = $fstat[9]);
}
sub usage {
print "\n",
"Usage: $0 (directory) [reverse]\n",
" examines all files in (directory) and all its subdirectories,\n",
" sorts by date, and returns the sorted list, earliest first.\n",
" If 'reverse' is specified, files are sorted earliest last.\n\n";
exit;
}
--
David Fleck
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