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Some basic Linux command line utilities that are just sufficient for sorting a directory based on Date and Time are: ls command Here, we will unveil the real strength of Linux by examining a set of commands which can help sorting a file or even a list of files by Date and Time. Real beauty of Linux shows here, as Linux has a collection of commands which if used separately or together can help to search for a file, or sort a collection of files according to their name, date of modification, time of creation, or even any filter you could think of applying to get your result. People comfortable with GUI’s can find it using File Manager, which lists files in long listing format, making it easy to figure out what we wanted, but those users having habit of black screens, or even anyone working on servers which are devoid of GUI’s would want a simple command or set of commands that could ease out their search. Find and Sort Files by Date and Time in Linux But, the problem arises when we need to search for a particular file modified on particular date and time in this huge collection. But, this whole stuff fills our directories usually desktop, making it look like a mess. Some, hidden files, some kept in a separate folder created for our ease of understanding, while some as it is. Will list all symlinks, block devices, sockets and characters devices, sorted by date.Usually, we are in habit of saving a lot of information in form of files on our system.

Will list 42 more recents symlinks findByDate -0 '( -type l -o -type b -o -type s -o -type c )' Will list 12 more recents non directories sorted by date, with size printed in human readable form findByDate 42 '-type l' Nota:Įven on big filesystem tree, as xargs recieve already sorted list, the file order stay correct, even if ls must be run many times. Will list all non directories sorted by date. This could by run with one or two argument, or even without: Usage: findByDate Here is a clean and robust way for sort | head by date: Ls -t sorts by time, which is irrelevant here, but that's what I typically use.

Ls -h -si produces human-readable file sizes (more correct with -si). Ls -G suppresses printing the group name (waste of space). $_ to be replaced by an argument, and newlines are now the argument separators (note the spaces in filenames above). If you have Perl (here I'll assume there are no newlines in file names): find. If you have GNU find but not other GNU utilities, use newlines as separators instead of nulls you'll lose support for filenames containing newlines. If you have GNU find, make it print the file modification times and sort by that. The easiest method is to use zsh, thanks to its glob qualifiers.