[wplug] Shell: 'find' trick
Brandon Kuczenski
brandon at 301south.net
Sat Oct 15 14:56:41 EDT 2005
I have a series of files that all start with the same name prefix:
something like `hostname -s`-fleem-`date +%F`. The files were created on
various irregular dates (i.e. not once per day or week, but once per
whenever).
Can anyone think of a way to use 'find' to select only the newest file in
a directory tree that starts with a given name? I don't know when
it was modified, only that it was modified more recently than the
other files that match the pattern. Example:
# ls
ocean-fleem-2005-10-01
ocean-fleem-2005-10-04
ocean-fleem-2005-10-05
ocean-fluum-2005-10-01
ocean-fluum-2005-10-04
ocean-fluum-2005-10-06
ocean-floob-2005-10-11
# find . -name "ocean-fleem*" -magic-commands-to-list-most-recent
./ocean-fleem-2005-10-05
#
Thanks in advance,
Brandon
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