[CentOS] find most recent file update in directory
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 9 16:03:33 UTC 2011
From: "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
> John R. Dennison wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:15:53PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>>>
>>> Try something like:
>>>
>>> find . -type f -printf '%A@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -1
>>
>> I believe you want %T@ instead of %A@ (modification time versus access
>> time). I would also suggest sort -nr to sort from most recent to least
>> recent.
>
> What's wrong with ls -laFrt?
The OP said "in a directory hicharchy"...
JD
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