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Old 02-03-2012, 02:34 AM   #31
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Looks like it would be nice if find has an option to specify besides -depth something to sort the entries by time, either in each directory or overall.

NB: stat -c %Y "$FILE" (uppercase y) outputs the seconds directly.
I don't use find in the script :S

Thanks for the tip about stat!
 
  


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