On Nov 12, 2007 5:34 PM, Saleem Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2007 5:13 PM, ankIT WALiA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be
> > used in shell script?
> >
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> 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' '
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>
Yet again, here is a Ruby one liner:
ruby -e 'puts Dir["./**/*"].delete_if { |f| File.directory?(f) }.sort_by {
|f| File.mtime(f) } [ -1 ]'
Also that it works recursively.
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