From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-05-04T01:53:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross platform `ls -t`

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gabriele renzi" <surrender_it@rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: Cross platform `ls -t`


> Is there a way using Dir to have a list of directory entries sorted by
> time? 
> 
> What I'd like to have is a `ls -t` that works even on windows 
> (and no, I don't want ls.exe ;)

Mmm. Something like this (untested):

  list = Dir["**"].sort {|x,y| File.stat(x).mtime < File.stat(y).mtime }

Of course, it's inefficient -- a Schwartzian transform
would make it faster.

Hal