On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:20:14PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:57:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Not entirely "quick" when dealing with a million files, but > > > > find /some/dir/ -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $6,$7,$8}' | sort -r | head -1 > > Ewwwww... ETOOMANYLS > > find /some/dir -type f -printf "%h/%f %A@\n" | sort -rn -k2 | head -1 *bows* Yours is the superior find-fu. I wasn't even aware it had a -printf option. But wouldn't you want %T@ (mtime) rather than %A@ (atime), since we're looking for the most recently modified file? -- I reckon we are now the only monastry ever that had a dungeon stuffed with sixteen thousand zombies. - perlmonks.org