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I really needed to get a list of files, recursively, from a rather large directory intensive web site sorted by the last modified date and I did not want to go through each directory searching for them by hand.  The idea was to get the last modified file in hope that I would find a file that contained a critical update for another web site with the same program.  After a couple hours of searching for and understanding the syntax involved, here is the Linux command that did the job.

find ./ -name “*.php” -type f -printf “%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %h/%f \n” | sort -rb | head -5

So what we are doing is trying to find a file with a .php extension searching from the current directory we are in, recursively.  We are telling the command that it is a file type and sorting it in reverse order to show 5 in the list of files returned.  We would like to get the results in a formatted way, so we are displaying the date first then the file name.  Example output:

2009-08-31 15:14:38 ./admin/functions/email.php
2009-06-07 13:08:20 ./admin/config.php
2009-03-07 09:28:03 ./admin/inc.php

That’s it. Hope someone finds this useful!

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Lets say you have a developer that needs to work on one of the sites that you are hosting on your web server in your basement and you don’t want them to have free range to everything on the box.  Another piece of this is you really don’t want the user to have SSH access either.  (more…)