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How to sort files by changing their mtime

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Create the list of files. For example using:

ls > list.txt

sort the list.txt by hand using your text editor or do whatever you like with it
Use this command to change mtime of each file in the list

while read f; do sleep 1; touch -c "$f"; done <list.txt

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