[ale] Bash script

[Boris Borisov]

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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