I love Linux.
It's like a wish fulfilment genie.
I like sorting directories either by size...
ls --sort=size -lr
or last modified time....
ls -lrt
Then I came across a whole directory of documents, and most of which are
years and years old...
So I wanted to list the whole lot by time.
Just like
du -a | sort -n
except that lists all files and sorts by size.
I wish I had something like "du" except it reported time instead of size....
Hmmm...
du --help
.
.
.
--time show time of the last modification of any file in
the
directory, or any of its subdirectories
--time=WORD show time as WORD instead of modification time:
atime, access, use, ctime or status
--time-style=STYLE show times using style STYLE:
full-iso, long-iso, iso, +FORMAT
FORMAT is interpreted like 'date'
Wow! it does that these days!
du --time-style=long-iso --time -a | sort -k 2 -k 3
Done!
I love linux.
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John Carter
Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics
PO Box 1645 Christchurch
New Zealand
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