On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 08:56 -0600, Kenny Gow wrote:
On 01/30/2018 06:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> $ ls -l
> total 7388
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1036281 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_01.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1183695 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_02.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1133299 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_03.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1066885 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_04.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 879477 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_05.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1247414 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_06.jpg
> -rwxr--r--. 1 poc poc 1008515 Jan 29 11:38 20180129113839_07.jpg
>
> The filenames are generated from the scanning software (a commercial
> program running on a Windows VM, and beyond any possibility of
> modifying). Clearly these names are just timestamps plus a sequence
> number and represent the order the slides were scanned. Adding another
> index number via the Shell script isn't going to change this sequence.
>
In the staging directory, try running
$ ls -lrt --time=ctime
to order the list by the time each image was put into the directory.
'ctime' is the key. I use this all the time to see the latest
new files in a directory, in time order.
You can also run
$ ls -lrt --time=ctime --full-time
to see the (more exact) time each file was moved into the directory.
Interesting idea. I'll think about that, thanks.
poc