topic Re: command find + sort in Operating System - HP-UX

command find + sort

Jairo Campana — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:42:06 GMT

as I can order por date

$ find . -name *.old -exec ls -ltr {} \;|more
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 351 Aug 3 2001 ./a/a/aaaimar.com.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 360 Jul 12 2001 ./a/a/aaci.org.ar.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 408 Mar 14 2003 ./a/a/aacolombo.com.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 410 Mar 14 2003 ./a/a/aaconcagua.com.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 664 Mar 14 2003 ./a/a/aaehsa.com.ar.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 603 Nov 12 2003 ./a/a/aaqct.com.ar.old

Re: command find + sort

Geoff Wild — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:50:08 GMT

Not too sure if you are just providing info or you are having trouble...

Try this:

find ./ -name *.old | xargs ls -ltr {} \;|more

Rgds...Geoff

Re: command find + sort

Jairo Campana — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:56:31 GMT

Not too sure if you are just providing info or you are having trouble
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yes, work with errors
find ./ -name *.old | xargs ls -ltr {} \;|more

-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 347 Aug 15 2001 ./a/r/aroxt.com.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 361 Aug 15 2001 ./a/r/arihernandez.com.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 353 Aug 21 2001 ./a/r/arqsovic.com.old
--More--{}: No such file or directory
;: No such file or directory
{}: No such file or directory
;: No such file or directory

Re: command find + sort

Geoff Wild — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:03:55 GMT

What about:

find ./ -name *.old | xargs ls -ltr |more

Rgds...Geoff

Re: command find + sort

Rodney Hills — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:07:14 GMT

Unfortunatelly "ls" is not consistent with displaying dates.

Here is a one liner that should work-
find . -name "*.old" | perl -ne 'chomp; print STDOUT (-M $_),"\t",$_,"\n"' | sort -n | cut -f2 | xargs -n1 ll -d

This works by getting the age of the file, prepending to the filename, then calling sort, then calling cut (to remove the file age), then xargs to do "ll" command.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: command find + sort

Rodney Hills — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:16:51 GMT

Geoffs solution is the most sound, although it won't work if you have a lot of files.

xargs will process the filenames in chunks, so that each chunk will be sorted, but not sorted as a whole.

my 2 cents...

-- Rod Hills

PS- gnu find command, available on the software porting and archive centre, has extended capabilities that might be of use to solve your problem.

Re: command find + sort

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:40:33 GMT

we can also use,

ls -ltr `find . -name "*.old"` | more

HTH.