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Old 07-18-2010
How to sort output from find from oldest to newest?
Hi,

How do I sort the output of find to provide a listing of files from oldest to newest?

For example, if I do a find /tmp -type f -print I want the output to be sorted in the order of the oldest to the newest file.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 07-19-2010
ls -lrt would show newest at last. and if u want to reverse then simple ls -lt.

using find:
Code:
find /tmp -type f | exex ls -lrt {} \;

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Old 07-19-2010
Assuming a Posix shell and a moderate number of files:

Code:
ls -1tr $( find /tmp/ -type f -print )

The parameters tp "ls" are hyphen-one-tee-arr . We just want to list the file names in ascending date order.
 
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