Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

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