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Copy files in order of creation date

Hi everyone :-)

I ran into a small issue. I would like to copy some files in the precise order they were created.

So the oldest files should be copied first and the newest ones last.

I tried

Code:

cp -r $(ls -1t) ./destination

but the files are still not sorted properly. I was thinking, that maybe the system cannot tell them apart properly as the copy process is so fast, that they basically copy simulatiously. Sounds stupid, but for some reason when I use this command, they are not created at the destination in the order they are stored in the source folder.

I was thinking that maybe a sleep or something is needed in between each copy process. So copy the oldest file, sleep one second, copy the next one....

But I am not sure how to get this done properly.

It would be ideal if this could be solved without a script as I want to run this in an Android terminal.

I hope you guys can help me out :-)

Thank you!

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