In article <20030722012022.A14189@noc.untraceable.net>,
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
>i was thinking of of rearranging stat(1)'s source code a little so
>that other programs could include the formatting code with very little
>difficulty.
>
>one such candidate would be find(1), so that you could do things like:
>
>	find . -type f -stat "%m %N" | sort -n | tail -5
>
>for example, and find the five newest files under a given directory.
>there would, of course, be a -stat0 operator, and these would satisfy
>the "print something by default" requirement that find asserts.
>
>it's terribly non-standard, of course, but it might also terribly
>useful.
>
>comments?  opinions?  criticisms?  flames?

I like it... What's next -lstat?

christos