Find latest date in folder

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

HI

I have folder in home dir.

/home/kpp/07222013
/home/kpp/07212013
/home/kpp/07202013

Output :--

/home/kpp/07222013

Just find latest date

2

Does the name correspond to the date of last modification?

Would

ls -t | head -n 1

work ?

3

NO Base on modification !!!!

I want base on date !!!!

4

if filename = mofication date, try:

ls -1d /home/kpp/* | awk -F"/" '$0>a[$0]{a[$0]=$0} END {print a[$0]}'
5 
Try:
ls /home/kpp/* | awk -F/ '{d=substr($NF,5,4) substr($NF,1,4)} d>m{f=$0; m=d} END{print f}'

or

cd /home/kpp
ls | awk ...

The latter will avoid line length limitations...

6

Alternative with sort:

ls /home/kpp/* | sort -k1.5 -k1.1,1.2 -k1.3,1.4 | tail -n 1