Hello
I am starting to program in Shell and would like to know how can I list the most recent files from a directory ... For example:
a directory where the files have S1, S2 and S3.
The most recent are the files S1 and S2 (are tied with the date of creation).
How do I list them?
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There is no date of creation information, only the date of last modification.
To list files, most recent first:
ls -t
If you only want the two most recent, pipe the output through head:
ls -t | head -n 2
Have a play around with ls and head/tail e.g.
ls -lrt | tail -5
(or ls -rt | tail -5 for shorter output)
will get you the 5 most recent files...
HTH
the problem is: i want to create a program to find the most recent files from a directory... in case of being 2 or 3 files with the same date , i would like to list them
what really cares is when i make a call system with the program name what i want it to do is list the most recent file from the current directory