How do I list all the files in a directory and subdirectories in reverse chronological order

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I want to do something like ls -t but also have the files in subdirectories included  But the problem is that I don t want the output formated like ls -R does  which is like this    test   ls -Rt b       testdir test    testdir  a   I want it to be formatted like the find command displays files in subdirectories  I e    test   find       b   test   testdir   testdir a   But what find doesn t seem to do is order the result chronologically by last update time   So how can I list all the files in a directory and subdirectories  in the format that find does  but in reverse chronological order

User · Accepted Answer

Try this one   find   -type f -printf   T   p n    sort -nr   cut -d   -f2-

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The command in wfg5475 s answer is working properly  just need to add one thing to show only files in a directory  amp  sub directory   ls -ltraR  egrep -v                    total  d   sed      d    Added one thing   d to ignore the all directories from the listing outputs

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If the number of files you want to view fits within the maximum argument limit you can use globbing to get what you want  with recursion if you have globstar support   For exactly 2 layers deep use  ls -d        With globstar  for recursion use  ls -d       The -d argument to ls tells it not to recurse directories passed as arguments  since you are using the shell globbing to do the recursion    This prevents ls using its recursion formatting

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find -type f -print0   xargs -0 ls -t   Drawback  Works only to a certain amount of files  If you have extremly large amounts of files you need something more complicated

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ls -lR is to display all files  directories and sub directories of the current directory ls -lR   more is used to show all the files in a flow

User · Answer

try this     ls -ltraR  egrep -v                    total   sed      d

User · Answer

Try find   -type d or find   -type d -ls

[unix] How do I list all the files in a directory and subdirectories in reverse chronological order?

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