Rich Freeman on 11 Apr 2012 09:33:45 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Sort a file tree by last modified time


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Paul Jungwirth > I suppose one
caveat with this approach is that it will give incorrect
> results on large trees, because files will only be sorted within each
> invocation of `ls`. So some recently-changed files are going to be
> buried up in the middle of the results. Hmm.

How about:
find content -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l --time-style='+%s' | sort -n -k 6
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