[wplug] Shell: 'find' trick

[James O'Kane]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:

> 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:

If you can trust the file modification time, you can do:
ls -rt |tail -1


-james