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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Need help with UNIX command to get the latest file from list of files with timestamp Post 303032134 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 12th of March 2019 11:20:27 AM
Old 03-12-2019
Using the filenames as the ONLY time reference:
Code:
newest=$( ls abcd*|  sort -n -k2 -t '.' | tail -1 )

Using file mtimes (last time written to, the default for ls -l )
Code:
newest=$( ls -rt '.' | tail -1 )

The inode time ls -c abcd* is another internal time kept. This is almost always the file creation time. File creation time (birth time) is not universal, older UNIXes filesystems do not support it.

Since your question vague this is about the best we can do for you. We need your shell and your OS (uname -a shows this) to do better.

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Gtk2::RecentInfo(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Gtk2::RecentInfo(3pm)

NAME
Gtk2::RecentInfo - wrapper for GtkRecentInfo HIERARCHY
Glib::Boxed +----Gtk2::RecentInfo METHODS
timestamp = $info->get_added; timestamp = $info->get_modified; timestamp = $info->get_visited; cut integer = $info->get_age (exec, count, timestamp) = $info->get_application_info ($app_name) o $app_name (string) (applications) = $info->get_applications string = $info->get_description string = $info->get_display_name boolean = $info->exists (groups) = $info->get_groups boolean = $info->has_application ($app_name) o $app_name (string) boolean = $info->has_group ($group_name) o $group_name (string) pixbuf = $info->get_icon ($size) o $size (integer) boolean = $info->is_local string = $info->last_application boolean = $info->match ($other_info) o $other_info (Gtk2::RecentInfo) string = $info->get_mime_type unix timestamp = $info->get_modified boolean = $info->get_private_hint string = $info->get_short_name string = $info->get_uri_display string = $info->get_uri unix timestamp = $info->get_visited SEE ALSO
Gtk2, Glib::Boxed COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team. This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gtk2 for a full notice. perl v5.14.2 2012-05-27 Gtk2::RecentInfo(3pm)
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