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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with finding the latest modified version of a file within directories Post 302743971 by co21ss on Thursday 13th of December 2012 03:28:18 PM
Old 12-13-2012
Corona,
This works out very nicely to only output the last modified version of the .xls file.

However, I am open to any other more efficient methods, as this does take some time to search through 400+ subdirectories.

Thanks!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
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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SSGREP(1)							       GNOME								 SSGREP(1)

NAME
ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings SYNOPSIS
ssgrep [OPTIONS] [FILES] DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the ssgrep command. ssgrep is a command line utility to search for strings in spreadsheets of any format supported by gnumeric. OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options starting with two dashes (`--'). Options controlling input file handling --recalc Recalculate all cells Options controlling patterns and pattern matching -f, --keyword-file=FILE The path to a text file containing one key per line -i, --ignore-case Ignore differences in letter case -w, --word-regexp Match only whole words -F, --fixed-strings Pattern is a set of fixed strings -R, --search-results Search results of expressions too -v, --invert-match Search for cells that do not match Options controlling output in general -c, --count Only print a count of matches per file -L, --files-without-matches Print filenames without matches -l, --files-with-matches Print filenames with matches -q, --quiet Suppress all normal output -H, --with-filename Print the filename for each match -h, --without-filename Do not print the filename for each match -n, --print-locus Print the location of each match -T, --print-type Print the location type of each match Help options -V, --version Display ssgrep's version -?, --help Display the supported options --usage Display a brief usage message EXAMPLE
To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric : ssgrep SUM foo.gnumeric To search for the strings from the file keywords in the spreadsheet foo.xls : ssgrep --keyword-file=keywords foo.xls LICENSE
ssgrep is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page <http://www.gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
The copyright on ssgrep and the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code. AUTHOR
ssgrep's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>; ssgrep builds on the gnumeric codebase. The initial version of this manpage was based on ssindex.1 by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
beagled(1), gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssindex(1) The Gnumeric Homepage <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/>. The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/>. gnumeric 2009-02-08 SSGREP(1)
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