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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with finding the latest modified version of a file within directories Post 302743943 by Corona688 on Thursday 13th of December 2012 03:04:12 PM
Old 12-13-2012
You don't give -l to ls when you want to automate it. Why bother getting username, file permissions, modified date and all that when all you're doing to do is throw it away?

You can use ls to sort the files by date with -t, then just grab the first.

Code:
find . -type f -name "*.xls" -exec ls -t '{}' '+' | head -n 1

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