Timeline for Get most recent file in a directory on Linux
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| Sep 26, 2022 at 10:06 | comment | added | Adel | how to open the file in addition to show its name? Thanks! | |
| Aug 21, 2022 at 18:53 | history | edited | Chris Stryczynski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 57 characters in body
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| Apr 5, 2022 at 11:21 | comment | added | Gregor Hartl Watters |
Thanks for the answer! How would one siphon this into another command? For example, how could you use rm -rf to remove the latest file spat out by the command you give?
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| Dec 30, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | 12431234123412341234123 | This lists the most recent file of a folder not the most recent file of a directory. | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 7:39 | history | edited | mgutt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added explanation of used flags
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 19:00 | comment | added | igo | Works on Mac :) | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 0:21 | comment | added | Peter Scott | I think that the intended benefit of using tail instead of head may be to exclude the inclusion of the line describing total returned by the ls. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 15:23 | comment | added | Alan | For those who just want the filename: $(ls -rt | tail -n 1) | |
| May 15, 2015 at 12:01 | comment | added | 89n3ur0n | @dmckee you should either remove -r from command or change tail to head :D | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 18:06 | comment | added | Sildoreth | Note that this solution includes directories as well as files. This could be a good thing or a bad thing; it depends on what the individual user wants. The reason I bring this up is that the original question says "file". | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @TrueY I quite agree. Chaos' answer is better for efficiency. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 8:51 | comment | added | TrueY |
A minor issue: This version pipes all the output of ls to tail, then prints only the LAST line. IMHO it is better to sort in ascending order and use head instead, as chaos suggested. After printing the first line head quits, so sending the next line (actually next block) will rise a SIGPIPE and ls will quit as well.
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| Sep 18, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | Josir | using ls -Artls you can also view the file date. | |
| Jun 18, 2009 at 23:21 | vote | accept | ack | ||
| Jun 18, 2009 at 23:19 | history | edited | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Fix for Jared
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| Jun 18, 2009 at 23:19 | history | edited | Zifre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
removed extra backquote
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| Jun 18, 2009 at 23:17 | history | answered | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 2.5 |