[Gllug] One liner challenge

[Steve Cobrin]

On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 09:31, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
> I use
>
> find . -exec ls -ld {} \;
>
> to list all the files and directories as I don't like the output of
> ls -lR
>
> However I would like to have the output changed so that it lists
> everything but sorted by date with the most recent file last.
> There must be a simple one liner to do this.
>
> Who is up to the challenge?
>
> Robin

Just had to do this last night :-)

( export LC_TIME=en_GB; find lib -type f ! -type l -exec ls -ld {} \; ) | sort -k 6 -k 7

Setting LC_TIME affects the way "ls -l" displays, I don't use "-ls" in find 
command, as it doesn't comply with standards.

 -- Steve

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