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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to list the files based on the modification time using the find command? Post 302604912 by methyl on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 09:44:24 AM
Old 03-06-2012
What Operating System and version you you have and what Shell do you use?


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I cannot use "ls -t" as there are lot of files, which "ls" command cannot handle
How many files?
Can you demonstrate this problem?

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I need to list the files based modification time of the files from a directory,
What does this sentence mean? Can you give an example?
 

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