[CentOS] find most recent file update in directory

Fri Dec 9 15:23:43 UTC 2011
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?

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