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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help: find and modified files script Post 302244820 by treesloth on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 04:19:52 PM
Old 10-08-2008
I don't know if this *has* to use find... I hope a different approach is OK. The ls command has the ability to sort by modification time. For example, the command ls -alt will sort by mod time, showing long format for all files.

I hope tcsh is acceptable... that's the shell that happened to pop to mind...

Code:
#!/bin/tcsh

echo -n "What directory do you want to check? "
set dir = $<

ls -alt $dir | tail +2 | head -n 1

That will output to the shell. It looked like you already know how to modift to send the output to a file instead, so I won't worry about that. Also, you might need to massage the tail value a little to get it working with your OS. If you post the exact output of ls -alt from your command line, we should be able to whip it into shape.
 

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