From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:11:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130913051148.GB4586@syscon7.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc82NSorzJCX7CT6GL4mMNu+ZSsZdxFoD5RtQNAgas8+45g@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/13/13 00:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Joseph <syscon780@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 -- '/'
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 4:48 [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort Joseph
2013-09-13 4:58 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 5:04 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 5:11 ` Joseph [this message]
2013-09-13 5:16 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 6:24 ` Jean-Christophe Bach
2013-09-13 6:50 ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 12:45 ` Joseph
2013-09-13 13:36 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 13:43 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-13 13:51 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-14 4:04 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-14 19:16 ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 20:52 ` Alexander Kapshuk
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