[ale] Bash script

[Ron]

Bob Toxen via Ale wrote on 2025-04-12 18:57:

> Y'all might want to test your code before offering it as a solution 
> or note it as untested.

You might want to test it yourself before calling it out since it was 
tested and it works.

Replacing `head` or `tail` with `less` will easily show that it works.


> On a *nix file system, files that are stored in a directory inode 
> are NOT sorted.  Thus, the "ls -lta {}" that is executed on each
> non- sorted entry will NOT be a list sorted by time.  Oh, that is
> after you figure out that you need a trailing \; to terminate the -
> exec operator.

Did you completely miss the "\+" in the following?

>> find $mount_point -type f -exec ls -lta {} \+  | tail -n 1

It was used intentionally, can you figure out why?




Thanks, in a thread of completely wrong answers, this was pretty funny.