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  1. brwyatt revised this gist Aug 23, 2016. 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.
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    # Based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10575665/linux-find-command-find-10-latest-files-recursively-regardless-of-time-span
    # with additions to return only the date of the newest file
    find "${dir}" -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs ls -l | cut -d' ' -f6,7,8
    find "${dir}" -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs ls -l -t
  2. brwyatt revised this gist Dec 29, 2015. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
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    dir="${1}"
    fi

    # Based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10575665/linux-find-command-find-10-latest-files-recursively-regardless-of-time-span
    # with additions to return only the date of the newest file
    find "${dir}" -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs ls -l | cut -d' ' -f6,7,8
  3. brwyatt created this gist Dec 29, 2015.
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    #!/bin/bash

    if [[ "x${1}" == "x" ]]; then
    dir="."
    else
    dir="${1}"
    fi

    find "${dir}" -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs ls -l | cut -d' ' -f6,7,8