Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:14:14 +0530, मनीष <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ankit> >Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder Ankit> >to be used in shell script? Bimal> you may also take a look at "find" command with "time" > parameter, see "man find" for more details. > You mean

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-13 Thread pj
Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ls -lr | tail -1 > for time of last access. See "ls -t", and "ls -c" for other times. And if you're interested in the dotfiles (the otherwise invisible ones) make it ls -lart (that sequence of letters is ez 2 rmmbr if u r l33t ;-)). PJ

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread मनीष
Ankit> >Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be Ankit> >used in shell script? Bimal> you may also take a look at "find" command with "time" parameter, see "man find" for more details. You mean -mtime, -atime and -ctime options? But this will also not give latest `c

[ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread bimal pandit
Dear Ankit, >Message: 8 >Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:13:25 +0530 > From: "ankIT WALiA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [ilugd] how to get latest created file >To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org >Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/p

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:20:54PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: | ankIT WALiA wrote: | > Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be | > used in shell script? | > | | iNotify ? inotify will throw events, one has to li

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
ankIT WALiA wrote: > Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be > used in shell script? > iNotify ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http:/

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread Saleem Ansari
On Nov 12, 2007 5:34 PM, Saleem Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > > I believe this will work, but only in current direc

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 12 November 2007 17:13, ankIT WALiA wrote: > Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to > be used in shell script? If you want the last file whose inode was modified (which is usually the same as the last file created): ls -c | head -1 P.S. *nix has ``director

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread मनीष
On Nov 12, 2007 6:00 PM, मनीष <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > > Try this: > > getLatestFile(){ > if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then > ls -tr $

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread Gora Mohanty
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 stor

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread मनीष
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? > Try this: getLatestFile(){ if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then ls -tr $1 | tail -1 else echo "usage: getLatestFile " fi } ex. $ getLatestFile ~

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread Saleem Ansari
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? > I believe this will work, but only in current directory ( not recursively ) ls -l | grep -v '^total' | tr -s " " ' ' | sort -t ' ' -k

[ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-12 Thread ankIT WALiA
Can anyone tell me, how to get latest created file from a folder to be used in shell script? Thanks & Rgds Ankit ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 2