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list files in chronological order

<some find command> | xargs ls -ltr --time-style="+%Y%m%d_%H%M"

For example, the following command will list all yml files under the current directory in a chronological order

find . -iname '*.yml' | xargs ls -ltr --time-style="+%Y%m%d_%H%M"

Sample run

$ find . -iname '*.yml' | xargs ls -ltr --time-style="+%Y%m%d_%H%M"
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  527 20191119_1013 ./envs/env_test_textract.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  492 20191126_1044 ./envs/env_py36.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  327 20200416_1807 ./envs/env_test_nbopen.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  365 20200529_1848 ./envs/env_test_cherrypy.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089 1212 20210128_1851 ./envs/env_py38.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  342 20210816_1802 ./envs/env_test_pyarrow.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089 2486 20211109_0907 ./envs/env_use_flask.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089 3130 20211231_1209 ./envs/env_py39.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  645 20220607_0852 ./envs/env_play_ground.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  354 20220607_0852 ./envs/env_test_pandas.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089 3153 20220609_1304 ./envs/env_py310.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kkusuman 1049089  698 20220722_1800 ./envs/env_rutils.yml

Ref:- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11392526/how-to-sort-the-output-of-grep-l-chronologically-by-newest-modification-date/53438441#53438441

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