* Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> [13.09.2013. @00:16:51 -0500]:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Joseph <syscon780@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 <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 -- '/'
> 
> 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