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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers List all files and directories in the current directory separated by commas and sorted by crtime Post 303032153 by chstewar on Tuesday 12th of March 2019 11:20:42 PM
Old 03-13-2019
I have been able to make some progress on the problem. I found a partial solution, but I can't
post the links yet.

Here is the code:
Code:
xstat() {
  for target in "${@}"; do
    inode=$(ls -di "${target}" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
    fs=$(df "${target}"  | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}')
    crtime=$(sudo debugfs -R 'stat <'"${inode}"'>' "${fs}" 2>/dev/null | 
    grep -oP 'crtime.*--\s*\K.*')
    printf "%s\t%s\n" "${crtime}" "${target}"
  done
}

I made a change to the printf statement to:
Code:
printf "%s %s, " "${crtime}" "{target}"

With this change I get a comma separated list of crtime (creation time) and names of the files
in the current directory.
The problem with this is that the files are not sorted by crtime.

I found code that solved the sort problem, but I don't know how to change the printf statements to get a comma separted list of crtime and name:

Here is the code I found:
Code:
crtime-at() {
for target in *; do
inode=$(ls -di "${target}" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
fs=$(findmnt -n -o SOURCE --target "${target}")
crtime=$(sudo debugfs -R 'stat <'"${inode}"'>' "${fs}" 2>/dev/null | 
grep -oP 'crtime.*--\s*\K.*')
crtime=$(date -d "${crtime}" +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)
printf "%s\t%s\n" "${crtime}" "${target}" >> /tmp/crtime
done
crtime=$(sort -t$'\t' -k1 -n /tmp/crtime)
printf "${crtime}"
rm /tmp/crtime
echo
}

The second program sorts by crtime, but I don't know enough about
Bash programming to figure out how to get i displayed as a comma separated list.

If anyone understands this code and has the time to explain it line by line, I believe it
will help me as well as the community.

Thanks for all the responses.

Charles
 

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