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lang-bash
zsh
tips. Could you provide a link to more details about this in zsh docs ?*(.om[1])
, but I usually want to find the newest file in a set of folders, ie./path/to/folders*/*(.om[1])
, which unfortunately only returns the newest file in all matched folders. See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552103/… on how to accomplish it over multiple folders.c
likefind
's-ctime
is for the inode change time which has nothing to do with the creation time. Themtime
can be seen as the creation time of the file's contents (as those are never created in one go). Some systems and filesystems record a birth*/*creation time which is the time a file's inode spawns (possibly again) into existence, but there's no portable API to retrieve that, and zsh has no corresponding sorting qualifier yet. But that particular time is not particularly useful. See When was file created-print0
andprintf
. Your tip made things quite a bit more elegant than the also-robust BashFAQ/099 (which might get merged with BashFAQ/003).