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Justin
Asked: 2011-11-29 01:55:33 +0800 CST

Find, and sort results by date created

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How can I sort the results of find? I want to sort by date created asc?

find /docs -type f | sort

Sorts by filename not date created. Thanks.

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  1. Best Answer

    AFAIK, Linux doesn't record the creation time, so the short answer is you cannot.

    For the modification time, try this:

    $ find /docs -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -k1 -n

    or:

    $ find /docs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort
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