Todd suggested:
> drop the l in the -lt ... or do it a-like-so:
> for filename in `ls -lt | awk '{print $NF-2 $NF-1 $NF}'`; do (etc)
Thanks Todd. I tried your suggestion and it gave the same
error as Joseph's script. By experimenting, I discovered
that if I removed the quotation marks around "$filename"
it worked somewhat.
However, both scripts put all of the images on top of one
another.
So, how can I modify these scripts so the images will
*not* all be on top of one another but will be separated
out in some way, perhaps one after another on a line?
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Joe originally asked:
I have a directory/folder that contains several
dozen image files, all with different file dates.
How can I create a script that would display the images
that those files represent (not just list the files)
in date sequence from newest to oldest?
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Joseph Sinclair first replied (in part):
for filename in "$(ls -lt)" ; do display-image "$filename" ; done
replace display-image with your preferred image display tool.
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Joe replied to Joseph: That script is exactly what I wanted,
but sadly, it didn't work for me. What did I do wrong?
When I put 7 small images in a folder to try that script,
I got the result shown here:
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http://www.upquick.com/temp/decode.error.jpg
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