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Re: [PATCH] glob: add shopt globmtimesort to sort globs by mtime


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [PATCH] glob: add shopt globmtimesort to sort globs by mtime
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:00:34 -0500
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On 10/3/22 2:56 PM, Evan Gates wrote:
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There is currently no good way to sort files by mtime in the shell.
It's possible to do so with an ls that supports -t, but parsing ls is
problematic.

Thanks for the patch. There are some good things here, usable stuff, but I
think I'll look at a more general approach for the next version.

Chet

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