Use ls -td to list the directories sorted by timestamp instead of name. Use the -r switch to reverse the sorting order (in case you need that).
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Thanks.
Apologies I did not give the complete information .
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ssh <commonuser>@<each box>
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num=1
for file in *.dat;do
mv "$file" "$(printf "%u" $num).txt"
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done
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