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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding files in current directory when 100,000's files in current directory Post 302291896 by ShawnMilo on Thursday 26th of February 2009 02:13:48 PM
Old 02-26-2009
Do you have the ability to use Perl or Python? You might also want to check to see if your copy of ls has the --full-date flag, which could help if you're doing a shell script.

Also, what version of Unix are you on? Sometimes --max-depth is there, but it's a different flag name.

Try "which perl" and "which python" to see if you have those. You could easily slap together a little script to do this.
 

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