Re: Find and sort by date

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:35:20 +0100

2003-11-25, 05:45(-08), Chistian:
> I`m writing a php script using a standard unix command on my RH 8 box.
> What I want to do is to search trought my music directories and
> display the 5-10 last modified files.

zsh -c 'print -rl -- /usr/ftp/music/Mp3/**/*(D.om[5,10])'

Or, as you've got a GNU system:

find /usr/ftp/music/Mp3 -type f -printf '%Ts %p\0' \
  | tr '\0\n' '\n\0' | sort -rn | head -n 10 \
  | tail -n +5 | cut -d' ' -f2- | tr '\0' '\n'

And if you want to postprocess that list:

find /usr/ftp/music/Mp3 -type f -printf '%Ts %p\0' \
  | tr '\0\n' '\n\0' | sort -rn | head -n 10 \
  | tail -n +5 | cut -d' ' -f2- | tr '\0\n' '\n\0' \
  | xargs -r0 sh -c 'shift "$1"

  for file; do
    # whatever with "$file"
  done

  ' 2 1

With zsh:

for file (/usr/ftp/music/Mp3/**/*(D.om[5,10])) {
  # whatever with $file
}

-- 
Stéphane                      ["Stephane.Chazelas" at "free.fr"]

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