command find + sort

[Jairo Campana]

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

[Geoff Wild]

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

[Jairo Campana]

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

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

What about:

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


Rgds...Geoff

[Rodney Hills]

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

[Rodney Hills]

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.

[Muthukumar_5]

we can also use,

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

HTH.