On 2000-10-05 16:26:40, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in > > >> the order of their date something like "locate <file> | <sort_them>", > > >> (does the database include other parameters than just filenames?) > > > > > >not sure on this one. > > > > You could try something like: > > > > locate <file> | xargs ls -dl > > > > ... and then work out how to sort the resulting list by date. > > i keep forgetting about xargs. very clever gizmo! > > to sort the output by date, it's rather simple: > > locate <path-match-string> | xargs ls -dlt
This will fail when you exhaust the command buffer (e.g. when xargs will invoke ls multiple times). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) Woburn, MA 01888-0022 icq: 44214251 USA
