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I am trying to fetch the latest modified file from a directory using the command
find . -type f -exec ls -lt \{\} \+ | head | awk '{print $9}'

After the O/P, I get the below mentioned error and the command doesnt terminate at all.

find: ls terminated by signal 13
find: ls terminated by signal 13
find: ls terminated by signal 13
find: ls terminated by signal 13

Please can you let me know how this can be rectified.

Thanks!

That pipe doesn't cause any problem on my linux. What be your system?

To print the name of the last modified file in a directory, you don't need find nor awk:

Code:

ls -t | head -n1

Regards,
Alister