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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search Files on a given path based on latest time stamp Post 302966409 by Don Cragun on Thursday 11th of February 2016 04:23:38 PM
Old 02-11-2016
The following works with a Korn shell:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
BaseDir='/app/data'
BaseDir="$PWD"
newest=''

find "$BaseDir" -name 'Availability' |
while read -r path
do	if [ "$newest" = '' ] || [ "$path" -nt "$newest" ]
	then	newest="$path"
	fi
done
printf 'The most recent file is "%s".\n' "$newest"

but it uses a couple of non-standard features. The test -nt operator is a non-standard extension provided by many shells including bash and ksh. And, according to the standards, commands executed in a multi-command pipeline may either be executed in a subshell execution environment or in the current shell execution environment. The Korn shell runs the last command in a pipeline in the current shell execution environment; so the script above works. To run this script with bash the printf command at the end of the script would have to be put in a subshell with the while loop:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
BaseDir='/app/data'
BaseDir="$PWD"
newest=''

find "$BaseDir" -name 'Availability' | (
	while read -r path
	do	if [ "$newest" = '' ] || [ "$path" -nt "$newest" ]
		then	newest="$path"
		fi
	done
	printf 'The most recent file is "%s".\n' "$newest"
)

 

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NAME

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