“find” Newer Files & Sort By Date

Sort “find” results by date:

find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%Tc %6k KiB %p\n" | sort -n | cut -f 2-

1	find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%Tc %6k KiB %p\n" \| sort -n \| cut -f 2-

Find files newer then a specific file:

find . -type f -newer somefile.txt

1 2	find . -type f -newer somefile.txt

And combined:

find . -type f -newer somefile.txt -printf "%T@\t%Tc %6k KiB %p\n" | sort -n | cut -f 2-

1 2	find . -type f -newer somefile.txt -printf "%T@\t%Tc %6k KiB %p\n" \| sort -n \| cut -f 2-

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