[CentOS] find most recent file update in directory

Fri Dec 9 16:03:33 UTC 2011
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

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