[ale] Bash script

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The answer is stdout versus standard error. 

On April 12, 2025 6:26:32 PM EDT, Ron via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Boris Borisov via Ale wrote on 2025-04-12 14:42:
>
>> I'm trying to list all files on SSD disk (Windows) and to find the oldest file and the newest file.
>
>Here's something that can be get the newest and oldest files - further tweaking should be able to craft it into a single command:
>
>
>## Newest:
>find $mount_point -type f -exec ls -lta {} \+  | head -n 1
>
>## Oldest:
>find $mount_point -type f -exec ls -lta {} \+  | tail -n 1
>
>
>Bonus points to anyone who can explain why the `head` results include the one file plus this:
>
>> find: ‘ls’ terminated by signal 13
>
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