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Old 01-05-2009
unable to list the files
Hi,

$ ls -ltr *.log

Error :
argument list too long: ls

How to rectify this ?
# 2  
Old 01-05-2009
Hi risshant,

Pls try with the below command to list the files.

find . -name "*.log" -exec ls -ltr {} \;

Thanks
# 3  
Old 01-05-2009
This won't work as intended, as find passes only one argument at a time to ls, rendering -t (sort by time) and -r (reverse sorting) useless.
If you want the files newer than a certain timespan use
Code:
find . -prune -name '*.log*' -mtime -20 -print|xargs ls -ltr

(finds files modified in the last 20 days, without recursion, and passes them to ls -ltr)
 
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