On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:34:08AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I would like to request a new feature in bash. > > When doing a tab completion inside a directory, I would like the files > to be listed in the order of modification time (similar to ls -rt).
I think there would be a larger general interest if this were expanded to a shopt that affects the ordering of globs as well. It's pretty common for people in #bash to ask for a script that will return the oldest file (or newest file, or oldest 10 files, etc.) in a directory. Doing this right now is possible (using [[ $file1 -ot $file2 ]] in a loop) but awkward, particularly if you want more than one file.
