I would like to find the most recently changed file in a directory, excluding hidden files (the ones that start with .) and also excluding directories.
This question is headed in the right direction, but not exactly what I need:
Linux: Most recent file in a directory
The key here is to exclude directories...
Like the answer there except without -A
ls -rt | tail -n 1
Look at man ls for more info.
To make it exclude directories, we use the -F option to add a "/" to each directory, and then filter for those that don't have the "/":
ls -Frt | grep "[^/]$" | tail -n 1
This does what you want, excluding directories:
stat --printf='%F %Y %n\n' * | sort | grep -v ^directory | head -n 1
same one, not very clean but: ls -c1 + tail if you want => ls -c1 | tail -1
$ touch a .b
$ ls -c1
a
$ ls -c1a
a
.b
$ touch d
$ ls -c1
d
a
$ ls -c1a
.
d
a
.b
..
$ touch .b
$ ls -c1a
.b
.
d
a
..
As you can see, without a arg, only visible files are listed.
probably the same as the answer in the other post but with a small difference (excluding directories) -
ls --group-directories-first -rt | tail -n 1
