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

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/16/22 12:35 PM, Evan Gates wrote:
> On Mon Nov 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM MST, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 10/3/22 2:56 PM, Evan Gates wrote:
> > > ---
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> If you're taking care of it, that's awesome.

Whatever I come up with will appear in the devel branch. I haven't started
any `next version development' cycle yet, though.


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