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Old 11-30-2007
For Loop sequence question

I am using a for loop in a shell. My question is how does it list out the files in the example below. Does it list the files by name? How can I list the files by date so it will list the oldest file first in the sequence.

Thanks!


for f in /dir/*.*
echo $f
end
# 2  
Old 11-30-2007
Code:
for f in `ls -t /dir/*.*`
do
   echo $f
done

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Old 11-30-2007
Thanks Jim!
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