On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:50:37PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Urivan Saaib wrote:
Unless what John is trying to do is sort the files from older to newest, I
don't see "-exec " to be an option. If sorting the files is not a
requirement then -exec should be the way to go.
I guess the only way to fix the output for 'ls' is to pipe 'find' results
to 'sed' and escape all the shell special characters, but that'll depend on
the shell isn't? :)
Did you miss the solution previously offered by David?
find /home/ftp -mtime +238 -name \*.mpg -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt
I missed the part about sorting by mtime. With GNU utilities how about:
find ... -printf '%T@ %p\n' | \
sort -nr | cut -d' ' -f 2- | \
xargs -d'\n' ls -lU
putting the find expression in for the ...
David
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