File sorting routine

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep  6, 2000, Rob Christopher <rob.christopher@marconi.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this isn't specifically a gcc question

This is definitely not the place for this question.

> but does anyone know of a handy file sorting routine which can read
> all the file contents of a directory and return which file has the
> oldest timestamp (or lowest value when comparing filenames).

Since `ls -t' does this, I'd start by looking at the sources of GNU
fileutils.

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