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Hi,

I need to generate a listing of files that have been changed since x day. the listing is to be sorted by date.

I managed to get the 1st requirement using the find command :
find . -mtime -100 -type f -ls
but I don't know how to sort the ls listing by date.

The challenge comes when the files that have been changed for a day lies all over the directory.

Can anyone help ?

A zillion thanks !
Poh

p/s: I'm on Tru64 UNIX; and sort -M is not available...

Try...

Code:

find . -mtime -100 -type f -print | xargs ls -t

Hi Ygor,

Thanks for the help.
I've tried the command per posted, but I could not see the file details. When I change the -t option to -lt, it gives me a weird listing whereby the output isn't really sorted :

Jun 1 11:08 ./gen/toad_scripts/bkup_c
Jun 1 10:56 ./gen/toad_scripts/tmp_pk
May 30 16:36 ./gl/sqr/bkup_copy/xcuinv
May 30 16:36 ./gl/sqr/bkup_copy/xcuinv
Jan 7 15:48 ./gl/sqr/bkup_copy/cunrvrt
Jan 7 15:48 ./gl/sqr/cunrvrpt.sqr
Jan 7 15:48 ./gl/sqr/cunrvrpt.sqt
Jun 1 11:18 ./.lastlogin
May 13 09:13 ./inv/sql/whse_rcvd_load.l
May 13 09:11 ./inv/sql/bkup_source/whs5
May 3 16:47 ./inv/sql/bkup_source/whsl
Apr 19 10:38 ./oe/com/cuboxdown.com

I'm not sure where the problem lies....

The is because xargs is breaking the list of arguments it is passing to ls into smaller chunks so has not to supply to many args to ls.

This works, though I'm sure there are more graceful solutions out there:

Code:

find . -mtime -100 -type f | tr '\012' ' ' > /tmp/ick && ls -lt < /tmp/ick

Cheers,

Keith