On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:34 +0530, Saleem Ansari wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 5:13 PM, ankIT WALiA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be > > used in shell script?
Well, you can't get the time of creation of a file, as that is not stored. You can get various other times, such as the time of modification, time of access (unless this has been turned off at the filesystem level), and time of modification of file status. > I believe this will work, but only in current directory ( not recursively ) > > ls -l | grep -v '^total' | tr -s " " ' ' | sort -t ' ' -k 6,7 | tail -1 | > cut -f 8 -d' ' Eek, try, ls -lr | tail -1 for time of last access. See "ls -t", and "ls -c" for other times. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
