How to sort all the files with a particular extension inside a directory in Cent OS 7 according to modification time?

What command should I use to sort all the files in a project directory according to the date of modification?

Tried ls -t but it does not find the file and used find to find all the files of the specified type, but could not sort them.

Answer

You can use this to find all the files of the type you are looking for and sorted by the last modified date.

find $directory -type f -name "*.type" -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort

The above looks for all the files of type “type” and then sorts it according to the last modified timestamp.