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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:50:50
Message-Id: 5232B5AD.5070301@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort by Jean-Christophe Bach
1 Am 13.09.2013 08:24, schrieb Jean-Christophe Bach:
2 > * Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> [13.09.2013. @00:16:51 -0500]:
3 >
4 >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> On 09/13/13 00:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>
8 >>>> wrote:
9 >>>>>
10 >>>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
11 >>>>>>
12 >>>>>> I want to list recursively certain type of files eg. *.pdf but I want to
13 >>>>>> display: date, path and newest file first.
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>> What is the easiest way of doing it?
16 >>>>>
17 >>>>>
18 >>>>> ls -l --sort=time "$(find /path -iname "*.pdf")"
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> If there are no spaces in the filenames/directories, you can drop the
21 >>>>> quotes from $().
22 >>>>
23 >>>>
24 >>>> Sorry, it doesn't work with spaces even with the quotes; if you don't
25 >>>> have spaces in the directories/filenames, do
26 >>>>
27 >>>> ls -l --sort=time $(find /path -iname "*.pdf")
28 >>>>
29 >>>> If you have spaces, you need to set/restore IFS:
30 >>>>
31 >>>> S=${IFS}; IFS=$'\n'; ls -l --sort=time $(find . -iname "*.pdf"); IFS=${S}
32 >>>>
33 >>>> Regards.
34 >>>> --
35 >>>> Canek Peláez Valdés
36 >>>> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
37 >>>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
38 >>>
39 >>>
40 >>> Hm, I've tried:
41 >>> ls -l --sort=time $(find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg")
42 >>>
43 >>> got:
44 >>> ls: invalid option -- '/'
45 >>
46 >> The exact same command (changing joseph with canek) works for me,
47 >> except in directories/filenames with spaces, as expected. Do you have
48 >> an alias for ls? What does find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg" returns?
49 >>
50 >> Regards.
51 >> --
52 >> Canek Peláez Valdés
53 >
54 > Hi,
55 >
56 > This one should work:
57 >
58 > find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} +
59 >
60 > Regards,
61 >
62 > JC
63 >
64
65 This won't work if there are too many files because find will eventually
66 start ls multiple times.
67
68 Try this instead:
69 find /path -iname '*.pdf' -printf '%T@\t%Tc\t%p\n' | sort -nr |
70 cut -f 2-
71
72 Regards,
73 Florian Philipp

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