Sorting by access time in less than one second intervals

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, David A. Bandel wrote:
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> begin  Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> spewed forth:
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> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, David A. Bandel wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:46:56 -0400
> > > begin  Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> spewed forth:
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> > > > I would like to be able to use a simple bash script to sort files in
> > > > a directory by their access times. Unfortunately, the access times
> > > > are frequently within one second of each, other, so, they appear to
> > > > have the same access times when listed by ls. Is there a way to make
> > > > ls or a similar simple bash tool show file times in smaller units?
> > >
> > > ls --full-time
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> > AFAIK, that shows the full date & timestamp, however the timestamp is
> > still HH:MM:SS.
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> bash-2.05b$ ls --full-time xshipwars.png
> - -rw-r--r--    1 david    david       88927 2002-10-23 09:46:43.000000000
> - -0500 xshipwars.png
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> looks to me like I have a whole bunch of places after the seconds decimal.
>  Not sure if they're ever used, but they're there.

I'd say they're prolly not used, or you have an amzing abilitiy to alter
files exactly on the second mark.

However, bash-2.0.5.8 that comes with RH-7.2 doesn't seem to have this
functionality:
# ls --full-time magic
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        12441 Fri Sep 28 05:53:03 2001 magic


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