Finding the oldest file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi:-
I need help with a script I need to modify: - what's the best/easiest way to find out the oldest file in a directory and then move this file to another directory?

Thanks,

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in the sense
are u referring to the
usage time of the file (or)
modified time ?

then use,
ls -lurt
or
ls -lrt

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oldest_file=`ls -1 -t /path/to/directory/* | head -1`
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Hi JIM,

if you put the command (ls -l -t | head -2) it will return the latest file in the partcular dir

if you want retreive the oldest file in the dir, you can use the below command
$ ls -gt | tail -1

Thanks.

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ls -lrt | head -2

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mv `ls -tr |tail -1` newdirname