[ale] Bash script

[Boris Borisov]

Actually maybe is quirky ntfs system. I can see in one backup folder or
directory half of the zip files have year month day timestamp the ones half
month day time. Go figure

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 22:04 Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does the head line comes with month day and time output. But the tail
> line comes with year month day output.
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 12:38 Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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