better and faster finding most recently modified files recursively. also a process monitoring script i used to keep track of when vscode-server started acting up

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diff --git a/recentlymodifiedfilesrec.sh b/recentlymodifiedfilesrec.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#this is a faster implementation than the other script (mostrecentrecursively.sh)
+
+d='.'
+declare -a exclude #array of files to exclude from results
+
+if [[ $1 ]]; then
+    d=$1
+    shift
+fi
+
+while [[ $1 ]]; do
+    exclude+=(${1})
+    shift
+done
+
+#set up the exclusion options for the find command
+find_cmd_excl=""
+for s in ${exclude[@]}; do
+    find_cmd_excl+=" -not -wholename \"*${s}*\""
+done
+find_cmd="find ${d} -type f ${find_cmd_excl} -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -n 10 | cut -f2- -d' '"
+echo $find_cmd
+ts=`date +%s_%N`
+eval $find_cmd
+te=`date +%s_%N`
+
+tss=`echo ${ts} | cut -d'_' -f 1`
+tsn=`echo ${ts} | cut -d'_' -f 2`
+tes=`echo ${te} | cut -d'_' -f 1`
+ten=`echo ${te} | cut -d'_' -f 2`
+echo "${tss}, ${tsn}, ${tes}, ${ten}"
+tst=$((tss*1000000000 + tsn))
+tet=$((tes*1000000000 + ten))
+dur=$((tet-tst))
+echo "duration: ${dur} ns"