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Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Terminal - Show the single most recently modified file in a directory
ls -ltp | grep -v '/$' | head -n1
2011-10-17 16:21:15
User: linuxrawkstar
Functions: grep head ls
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Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

wrap it in a function if you like...

lastfile () { ls -ltp | grep -v '/$' | head -n1 }
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ls -lFart |tail -n1
2011-10-17 19:49:14
User: jambino
Functions: ls tail
Tags: tail pipe ls
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Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

List all files in a directory in reverse order by modified timestamp. When piped through tail the user will see the most recent file name.

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lastfile () { find ${1:-.} -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n1 | sed 's/[^[:space:]]\+ //'; }
2011-10-17 16:08:02
User: bartonski
Functions: find sed sort tail
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Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Takes a directory name as an argument (defaults to current directory if no arguments are given). Prints the newest file in the directory.

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ls -ltp | grep -v '/$' | head -n1

total 562528

Comment by atoponce 31 weeks and 3 days ago

This doesn't actually return any filesnames. This command only returns a block count in use by the files in the directory.

Comment by jambino 31 weeks and 3 days ago

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