[ale] Bash script

[Bob Toxen]

My apologies then.

Mine worked on my Linux system.

Bob

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:47:53PM -0700, Ron via Ale wrote:
> 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.
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