ls -lRc sorts individual directories by time.....
any good way to get a "unified" sorted listed (of all subdirectories)
without resorting to 'sort'?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ls sorts them for you, if you ask it. how about
>
> ls -lRc
>
> find -mtime -5
>
> if you are intimidated by man ls and man find, try info fileutils and
> info find.
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Jim Reimer wrote:
>
> > s/b +0.42 - and it's going to sort by month, which will put
> > may after june - may not be what you want.
> >
> > Jim Reimer wrote:
> > >
> > > ls -l -R | sort +0.43
> > > ought to sort the files/directories by date.
> > >
> > > (+0.43 is tells sort to sort on field 0, offset to the 43rd
> character.
> > > there's a not-very-good explanation of that in the man page for
> sort.)
> > >
> > > can't help much with your second question (sorry).
> > >
> > > Dan de Haan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a directory with several subdirectories. What I wan to do
> is
> > get a
> > > > list of all the files that are in there, and the directories below
> (ls
> > -R
> > > > like) sorted by the creation date. I have tries ls -l -R | sort
> > <several
> > > > different options> but I can't get it to work.
> > > >
> > > > I would also like to find out which file in these directories are
> new
> > from
> > > > the last 5 days. How would I do that?
> > > >
> > > > -Dan
> >
> > -
> Lawson
>
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