On 12/31/14 11:35 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: >> 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.
You can do most of this using ls and the `-1' option. It does break down when you encounter files with newlines in their names, but those are quite rare in practice. > > Cool! Thanks for your reply Greg. So it is obvious that there are > others who would like to see this feature implemented. The two features have little to do with each other, actually. > How are the feature requests tracked for bash? Is it enough to send > the email to this list or should I have to create an item at > https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=bash&func=browse&set=open ? I will put it on the list for consideration for a future version. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
