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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:16:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc8317DW403G1rZviiubQ3HWK343NO5KhFjd0wpq1X0kmpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130913051148.GB4586@syscon7.inet>

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
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13  5:16 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
2013-09-13  5:16       ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
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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