-printf is a Linux exclusive. Well I guess this is TCLUG. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis ----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Sherohman <dave at sherohman.org> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 5:30:21 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Finding the date of the newest file in a directory tree 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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080109/8de764e2/attachment.htm