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Old 09-01-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Hmm, this may or may not be difficult. Do you have stat? It can print epoch times, which you feed into a numeric sort, and then get rid of with awk once they've served their purpose...
find can do the same thing with printf

Code:
-printf "%T@ %f\n"

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