From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 17:41:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFEA16A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jellis@dhnet.us) Received: from smtp1.linkline.com (smtp1.linkline.com [66.59.235.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BEC43D48 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jellis@dhnet.us) Received: from [64.30.211.58] (64-30-211-58.dsl.linkline.com [64.30.211.58]) by smtp1.linkline.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E257C9CD84; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:41:40 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.0.050811 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:41:41 -0800 From: Jeffrey Ellis To: Eric Schuele , Jeffrey Ellis Message-ID: Thread-Topic: How to sort find results Thread-Index: AcXjwoLywYScCk+1EdqYJgAKlXMBfA== In-Reply-To: <436F39DB.7070003@computer.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to sort find results X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:41:44 -0000 Aha... Thanks, Eric :) Well, at least I know it can do it now. The problem -- as usual for a newbie -- is that I haven't got the vaguest understanding of what I just read. The field part I think I get, but how would I use the first character? I guess I'm basically too stupid to get these kind of instructions -- maybe just one example for the use of each option included in man pages would help? Anyway -- I don't think I'll ever get how to use this on my own. All My Best, Jeffrey on 11/7/05 3:26 AM, Eric Schuele at e.schuele@computer.org wrote: > Jeffrey Ellis wrote: >> Ok. It looks like: >> >> Find -x / -ls >> >> basically gives me what I need. But I am seeing two things I still need to >> do to the results. First, I need to sort the ls by modification time. It >> seems none of the options for ls work from within find -- or at least with >> the syntax ls -x. I also looked at doing something like find -x / -ls | >> sort, but when I look at the sort man, it doesn't say how to sort by > > Double check that man page... > Look for '-k'.. you can specify your sort key. > > HTH > >> particular criteria. >> >> The other thing is in the find man it says the -ls option displays the >> modification time of each file, but what I see is actually just the date >> "May 21 2004". No times. Is there a way to display the actual times? >> >> Thanks again :) >> >> All My Best, >> Jeffrey >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >