I have a directory: /home/user/
How can I list every file in this directory (including those in sub directories) and order them by the date that they were last modified?
4 Answers
MAC OSX 2019
If you don't care about what time it was created but you want your list sorted then use this command
==> ls -t
If you want to order and see date and user info use this command
===> ls -lt
For zsh users, you could also use glob qualifiers (also documented on man zshexpn):
echo *(om)
Where o stands for sort order, up and m stands for last modification time.
This can be useful when used in a for loop or another command:
for file in *(^om); do
[ -e "$file" ] || continue
# do something with file orderer from least recently modified to last modified
done
Or chained with another glob qualifier:
last_modified_file=(*(om[1]))
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