script to sort files according to timestamp

aeby · 05-16-2007, 08:10 AM

Hi ,

I am planning to write a script to sort the directories in a directory according to the timestamp and then cd into that directory . Retrieve the file with the latest time stamp in that directory .

the script so far is:

#!/bin/sh
a=$(ls /home/test/ab/list | wc -l)
echo "number of files is $a"

ls /home/test/ab/list > /home/test/ab/list/nu

exec < /home/test/ab/list/nu
while read line
do

cd $line
ls -lt > test

done

but i dont know why it is not cding into the directory please can you tell me why.

Regards,
Arsha

macemoneta · 05-16-2007, 08:18 AM

You could just ask for the list sorted by time:

ls -lt

or, reverse sorted:

ls -ltr

Try 'man ls' for more options.