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Here's a solution for Mac: find $DIR -type f -exec stat -lt "%Y-%m-%d" {} \+ | cut -d' ' -f6- | sort -n | tail -1
– user
Commented Oct 12, 2015 at 20:32
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Problem is the cut command truncates paths with spaces instead of -f 2 use -f2- to return fields 2 to the end of the line
– Kevin
Commented Jan 11, 2017 at 15:02
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As in the suggestion by chaos, if you reverse the sort by using sort -nr, you can use head -n 1 instead of tail -n 1 and improve efficiency slightly. (Although if you're sorting a recursive find, getting the first or last line won't be the slow part.)
– Dennis Estenson
Commented May 14, 2017 at 11:48
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Very useful! I find it more friendly if piped to ls though: find ./ -type f -printf "%T@ %p\n" -ls | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f 2- | tail -n 1 | xargs -r ls -lah
– Simon
Commented Jul 27, 2017 at 8:33
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@user's Mac version only sorts/displays date, not time. Here's a fixed version: find $DIR -type f -exec stat -lt "%F %T" {} \+ | cut -d' ' -f6- | sort -n | tail -1
– yoz
Commented Dec 11, 2019 at 21:21

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