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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to copy certain info from several directories Post 302694925 by Corona688 on Friday 31st of August 2012 05:06:34 PM
Old 08-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by nrjrasaxena
...And given this, I need to do the "ls -ltr ".
No you don't. You need -t for time, and -r for reverse. All -l does is add columns that you instantly throw away.

-1, as in one, not ell, might make sense to force single-column output, but you get it anyway whenever ls writes to a non-terminal.

Since you need it sorted by time:

Code:
find /eos/uscms/store/user/pooja04//analysis2012/525/data/doubleele/2012/ -name '*.root' | xargs ls -1tr | tee listfile | while read LINE
do
        echo mv "$LINE" /path/to/dest
done

This may fail if there's too many hundreds of files, since they won't all be able to fit in one ls commandline.
 

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