Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I wish to get the most recent file from a dir which contains a specific string.

for example, in a dir sample/ , i have 3 files
file1.txt -- contains 'good'
file2.txt -- contains 'good'
file3.txt-- contans 'hello'

I want to search for the recent file (that is file2.txt) which contains the string 'good'.

please help me on this. Thnk you all in advance!!

If you meant recent file by time, then this may work for you.

Code:

grep 'good' `ls -t -1` | head -n1

Or you are expecting something else ?

have a look
thread

find ./sample -mtime -1 -exec grep good {} \;