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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find Oldest file in a directory tree Post 97251 by mahendramahendr on Friday 27th of January 2006 12:28:55 PM
Old 01-27-2006
I feel we should not sort based on the ls -lrt output because it contains the month in MMM format and not in number format, hence we can't sort...

here is small perl script... filedate.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#Argument of directory name is required

open(PTR,"find $ARGV[0] |");

my $str;

while($str=<PTR>)
{
chomp $str;

my ($hr,$mn,$day,$mnth,$year)=(localtime((stat($str))[9]))[1,2,3,4,5];

$mnth+=1;
$year+=1900;

printf("$year%02d%02d%02d%02d $str\n",$mnth,$day,$hr,$mn);
}

close PTR;


save the above file and give executable permission...
after that

$filedate.pl <DIR NAME> | sort

you can sort according to ur requirement... filedate.pl will give you the date of file in yyyymmddhhmm format....
 

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