sorting - sort list of files by date in bash -

sorting - sort list of files by date in bash -

given text file containing list of files, e.g.

$ cat file_list.txt /var/x/file1.txt /var/y/file2.txt <etc>

how can sort list of files criteria - lastly accessed time, or lastly changed time?

thanks in advance.

you can utilize stat command sort this:

while read -r line; stat -c '%y %n' "$line" done < file_list.txt | sort -n | cutting -d ' ' -f2 stat -c '%y %n' lists time of lastly modification, seconds since epoch followed space , file name sort -n sorts timestamps , filename numerically cut -d ' ' -f2 prints file names sort's output

bash sorting datetime