<p dir="ltr">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</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 22:04 Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Why does the head line comes with month day and time output. But the tail line comes with year month day output. </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 12:38 Bob Toxen via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My apologies then.<br>
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Mine worked on my Linux system.<br>
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Bob<br>
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 09:47:53PM -0700, Ron via Ale wrote:<br>
> Bob Toxen via Ale wrote on 2025-04-12 18:57:<br>
> <br>
> > Y'all might want to test your code before offering it as a solution or<br>
> > note it as untested.<br>
> <br>
> You might want to test it yourself before calling it out since it was tested<br>
> and it works.<br>
> <br>
> Replacing `head` or `tail` with `less` will easily show that it works.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> > On a *nix file system, files that are stored in a directory inode are<br>
> > NOT sorted. Thus, the "ls -lta {}" that is executed on each<br>
> > non- sorted entry will NOT be a list sorted by time. Oh, that is<br>
> > after you figure out that you need a trailing \; to terminate the -<br>
> > exec operator.<br>
> <br>
> Did you completely miss the "\+" in the following?<br>
> <br>
> > > find $mount_point -type f -exec ls -lta {} \+ | tail -n 1<br>
> <br>
> It was used intentionally, can you figure out why?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thanks, in a thread of completely wrong answers, this was pretty funny.<br>
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