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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find most recent file and copy to another directory. Post 302940326 by jim mcnamara on Friday 3rd of April 2015 11:51:43 AM
Old 04-03-2015
Files have filetimes - one is the last date/time the file was written to. It is called the file mtime, most often.

If you can simply look for files that match your pattern, grab the most recent one. If those files get created every hour or so it becomes even easier.

IF you give us more information about what you are trying to accomplish - NOT how to code it - we can give you very good answers.

As presented your code would skip over copying a file because there are two newer files not one. And how do you track what the last one copied over was? You don't with your code.

Please give us more to go on.
what shell?
What OS?
what do you want to accomplish? -- not how to code it.
 

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ocamlwc

OCAMLWC(1)						      General Commands Manual							OCAMLWC(1)

NAME

       ocamlwc - count the lines of code and comments in OCaml sources

SYNOPSIS

       ocamlwc [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

       ocamlwc	is  a program to count the number of lines of code and documentation in OCaml sources.	It assumes its input to be lexically well-
       formed.	If no files are given, then ocamlwc reads from stdin.

       The first column of the output lists the number of source lines of code, the second column the number of lines of  documentation,  and  the
       third the respective filename.  If ocamlwc acts on more than one file, then it prints a total in the last line.

OPTIONS

       -p     Print percentage of documentation (in an additional column after the filename).

       -c     Print only the code size, i.e., omit the documentation column.

       -e     (everything) Do not skip headers.  A header is the first comment in a file.

       -a     (all)  Do  not  skip generated files.  foo.ml is a generated file if one of foo.mll, foo.mly, or foo.ml4 is amongst the given files.
	      foo.mli is a generated file if foo.mly is amongst the given files.

       -h     Print short usage information.

AUTHOR

       ocamlwc was written by Jean-Christophe Filliatre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>.
       This manual page was written by Georg Neis <gn@oglaroon.de>.

								  January 2, 2007							OCAMLWC(1)
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