A filelist sorted by date and time

Pipelines v1.6

 

.* Example by TenFiftyTwo(c).

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.* The following pipeline searches for TEXT and HTML files on the C drive; selecting
.* only the first 20 entries, it sorts them by the date and time and displays the
.* result on the console.
 
pipe (priority 2 endchar ?)
     filelist drv=c subdir ext=(txt,htm)     .* List .txt and .htm files.
     | a: drop 1                             .* Dont sort the header record.
     | take 20                               .* Take only the first 20 records.
     | sort 12.10 d 23.8 d                   .* Sort on date and then time.
     | b: fanin 1 *                          .* Read header record first.
     | cons                                  .* Display on the console.
     ?
     a:
     | elastic                               .* Prevent a pipeline stall.
     | b:                                    .* Route header back to main pipeline.