On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:30:21PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 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?
Yup, you are right.
And the Oscar goes to:
find /some/dir -type f -printf "%h/%f %T@\n" | awk '{ if ($2 > the_max) { the_max = $2; file_name = $1; } }
END { print file_name }'
I would like to thank Google for its search engine and to the find
man page for its thorough description of the million options and
switches...
florin
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