Commands tagged newest file (2)

  • search the newest *.jpg in the directory an make a copy to newest.jpg. Just change the extension to search other files. This is usefull eg. if your webcam saves all pictures in a folder and you like the put the last one on your homepage. This works even in a directory with 10000 pictures.


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    cp `ls -x1tr *.jpg | tail -n 1` newest.jpg
    Psychodad · 2009-06-17 20:32:04 9
  • Watch out if you have several USB drives plugged in: it scans the whole /media/ folder !!! You can replace /media/ by the path of a specific USB drive (something like /media/F77A-530B/) I use a sound recorder and I want to plug the recorder and grab the most recent sound. That's what this command does. Use mv instead of cp to move instead of copy. Change *.wav to the required file type.


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    cp $(find /media/ -type f -name "*.wav" -printf "%T@ %h/%f\n" | sort | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 }') .
    hamoid · 2012-06-01 12:45:43 3

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