> What's a quick way to get the name of the newest file in a directory?
ls -ltr
and it'd be the last file listed (-ltr Long listing, by Time, in Reverse
order). I don't know of a way to make opendir/readdir use a different
order (by name, case sensitive as your OS) but a trick to get the last
file name (note, the missing lowercase L - this'll get the last entry in
the dir, file or dir):
ls -tr | tail -1
can be used w/ backtics to get the name in dir. Or something like:
my @files = `cd $some_dir ls -ltr`;
my $last_file = '';
foreach my $file_or_dir ( @files ) {
next if $file_or_dir =~ /^d/;
$last_file = $file_or_dir;
} # foreach $file_or_dir
print "Last file is: $last_file\n";
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