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Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr

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>>>>> Paul Branon <paulbranon@googlemail.com> writes:

	[Cross-posting to news:comp.lang.perl.misc, for obvious
	reasons.]

 >> $ find -printf %T@\\t%p\\n \

 > Ivan, what version of find are you using?

	As usual, GNU's.  (Unfortunately, GNU Findutils' documentation
	makes no mention that -printf is non-portable.)

	For a portable solution, a Perl-based one may fit, like:

$ find -exec perl -we 'foreach my $f (@ARGV) {
                           my @s = stat ($f)
			       or next;
                           printf("%d\t%s\n", $s[9], $f);
                       }' -- {} + \

	But note that one should post-process the output of the above
	Perl script even if the "oldest timestamp" logic is built into
	it, as there may be more filenames that could be safely passed
	to Perl by find(1) at one time.

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Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Paul Branon <paulbranon@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-13 08:22 -0700
  Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-13 18:23 +0100
    Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 12:31 +0700
      Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Paul Branon <paulbranon@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-14 08:28 -0700
        Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 22:43 +0700
          Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2012-03-14 18:05 +0000
            Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Sven Mascheck <mascheck@email.invalid> - 2012-03-14 18:31 +0000
              Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2012-03-14 19:01 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 10:41 +0700
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2012-03-15 08:13 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 10:24 +0700
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Sven Mascheck <mascheck@email.invalid> - 2012-03-15 19:54 +0000
              Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2012-03-14 19:59 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-15 00:16 +0100
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2012-03-15 02:12 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-15 09:42 +0100
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2012-03-15 10:56 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2012-03-15 15:46 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2012-03-15 16:49 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2012-03-15 19:06 +0000
                Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2012-03-15 17:13 +0000
  Re: Find the oldest files without using ls -tr Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2012-03-13 17:40 +0000

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