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[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, May 19th 2005 at 17:57 +0200, quoth roland brouwers:

=>
=>roland brouwers wrote:
=>> Hello everybody,
=>> 
=>> Could someone tell me how I can 
=>> List all filenames in a directory, sorted by time 
=>> And then
=>> Copying each file in this order to one file line by line, each line
=>> preceded by the first character of the filename

Just do it all in bash

ls -rt | while read line
do
   while read file
   do
      echo "${line:0:1} $file"
   done < $line
done

Take the space out of the echo if you don't like it.

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