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NAME

findsort - Unix find wrapper that has sorting option

VERSION

This document describes version 0.004 of findsort (from Perl distribution App-findsort), released on 2024-09-24.

SYNOPSIS

Use like you would use find, but with optional -sort option:

% findsort -sort=-mtime -type d -name '*.git'

DESCRIPTION

Despite Unix toolbox philosophy being in general useful, sometimes it's convenient to merge several Unix utilities into one. This is one of such cases. Either because sort by default does not offer sorting entries as files, or because in some situation (e.g. with ssh and Bourne shell account) the syntax to combine commands is limited.

OPTIONS

-help

-version

-sort

Specify sort order. Choices:

  • mtime

    Sort by oldest modification time first.

  • -mtime

    Sort by newest modification time first.

  • ctime

    Sort by oldest creation time first.

  • -ctime

    Sort by newest modification time first.

  • size

    Sort by smallest file first. Size is from `stat()`, so for directory this won't total the total contents inside.

  • -size

    Sort by largest file first. Size is from `stat()`, so for directory this won't total the total contents inside.

  • du

    Sort by smallest disk usage first. Size is from Filesys::DiskUsage, so for directory this will total the total contents inside.

  • -du

    Sort by largest disk usage first. Size is from Filesys::DiskUsage, so for directory this will total the total contents inside.

ENVIRONMENT

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-findsort.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-findsort.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-findsort

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.