Am 13.09.2013 08:24, schrieb Jean-Christophe Bach:
> * Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> [13.09.2013. @00:16:51 -0500]:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/13/13 00:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to list recursively certain type of files eg. *.pdf but I want to
>>>>>> display: date, path and newest file first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the easiest way of doing it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ls -l --sort=time "$(find /path -iname "*.pdf")"
>>>>>
>>>>> If there are no spaces in the filenames/directories, you can drop the
>>>>> quotes from $().
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, it doesn't work with spaces even with the quotes; if you don't
>>>> have spaces in the directories/filenames, do
>>>>
>>>> ls -l --sort=time $(find /path -iname "*.pdf")
>>>>
>>>> If you have spaces, you need to set/restore IFS:
>>>>
>>>> S=${IFS}; IFS=$'\n'; ls -l --sort=time $(find . -iname "*.pdf"); IFS=${S}
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>> --
>>>> Canek Peláez Valdés
>>>> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
>>>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>>>
>>>
>>> Hm, I've tried:
>>> ls -l --sort=time $(find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg")
>>>
>>> got:
>>> ls: invalid option -- '/'
>>
>> The exact same command (changing joseph with canek) works for me,
>> except in directories/filenames with spaces, as expected. Do you have
>> an alias for ls? What does find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg" returns?
>>
>> Regards.
>> -- 
>> Canek Peláez Valdés
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This one should work:
> 
> find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} +
> 
> Regards,
> 
> JC
> 

This won't work if there are too many files because find will eventually
start ls multiple times.

Try this instead:
find /path -iname '*.pdf' -printf '%T@\t%Tc\t%p\n' | sort -nr |
cut -f 2-

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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