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29/04/2008, 18h32

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 18:22, Dave B wrote:

> Stephane's solution handles filenames containing newlines (an unusual
> scenario). If you don't have such filenames, you can simplify it to:
>
> find . -type f -printf '%T@\t%p\n' |
> sort -rg |
> head -n 50 |
> cut -f2- |
> xargs -r ls -lU

I forgot to say that if you have filenames with spaces and tabs, you have to
modify IFS before executing the above commands.

IFS=$'\n' # or IFS="\n"
find ...

and possibly save the old value of IFS and restore it afterwards.

My advice is to just use Stephane's solution and be done with it.

--
D.

29/04/2008, 18h32	#10
Dave B Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: rsync most recent files from large source On Tuesday 29 April 2008 18:22, Dave B wrote: > Stephane's solution handles filenames containing newlines (an unusual > scenario). If you don't have such filenames, you can simplify it to: > > find . -type f -printf '%T@\t%p\n' \| > sort -rg \| > head -n 50 \| > cut -f2- \| > xargs -r ls -lU I forgot to say that if you have filenames with spaces and tabs, you have to modify IFS before executing the above commands. IFS=$'\n' # or IFS="\n" find ... and possibly save the old value of IFS and restore it afterwards. My advice is to just use Stephane's solution and be done with it. -- D.