Shell Programming and Scripting

There may be resources new to you then. such as find's -printf command, which can print date and time as you want.

Code:

find . -printf "%AY%Am%Ad%AH%AM %p\n" | sort -n | sed 's/^[0-9]* //'

see the main first post. as he tried using sort that's why i have used this...

Garbage in, garbage out. Problem was not with sort but the manner it was being used and the data it was given.

I made find print timestamps in YYYYMMDDHHMM, because dates given in that format always sort perfectly if you put them on the beginning of the line.

That's why i used positional sort. this is as per what i got from find and ls.

...and we have now come full circle.

"Locale dependent" means "what works for you won't work for someone else". Even worse, it will fail in ways that aren't obvious -- the output will be scrambled or wrong, rather than getting an error message or "option not supported". ls' output on even the same machine can be different for different files. For new files, my version of ls shows dates; for older ones, it shows only years. You can't sort that.

Using find -prinf means you always get exactly what you ask for, no more, no less.

Yes. agreed...
but till the time you don't know what is result of the command we can't comment anything. max we can request user to give proper inputs but this never happens.
as i am not master you do expect post like this.
ps: i m not fighting over which method is good...

Yes, if the user doesn't give information it's very hard to know what their ls output looks like.

You don't have to depend on that, though. What is your point, then?