Operating System - HP-UX
1820390 Members
3467 Online
109623 Solutions
New Discussion юеВ

grep file content and order by date

 
haeman
Frequent Advisor

grep file content and order by date

there are many files in a directory , I want to grep a word "testing" from these files and the result is order by date , I tried the below command , but it still can't order by date , can advise what can i do ?

grep -i "testing" *

find . -type f -exec grep -i {} \;
2 REPLIES 2
TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: grep file content and order by date

grep -l testing * | xargs ll -t

or

grep -l testing * | xargs ll -rt
TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: grep file content and order by date

You can still keep the "-i" option for upper and lower case grep-ing

grep -i -l testing * | xargs ll -t (or -rt)