[Gllug] Most Recent File

[Steve Nelson]

On 11/22/05, Simon Faulkner <simon at titanic.co.uk> wrote:
> How would you folks find the most recent file in a folder tree?

Aside from 'most recent' being a little ambiguous - do you mean most
recently accessed? most recently changed?  most recently modified? -
the very simple way is with ls!

$ ls -lt | head -5
total 61146
-rw-r--r--   1 nelsost1 uto         3866 Nov 21 09:26 fdisk-l
-rw-------   1 nelsost1 uto      1111091 Nov 18 16:41
c0n1-bundles-nelsost1.tar.bz2
-rw-------   1 nelsost1 uto      2061676 Nov 18 16:41
c0n0-bundles-nelsost1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 nelsost1 uto         1059 Nov 17 13:38 panic

> Is there a simple way?

Yes!

There are also some nifty arguments you can pass to find (search for
'time' and 'recent' in the manual page).

One of my favourite tricks is to find a file within a specific period
of time... say in the last 48 hours:

touch -t 11200845 timestamp
find . -newer timestamp

> TIA
>
> Simon

S.
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